The incidence patterns of Down syndrome in Qatar [3]

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 360-362

  Wahab, Atiqa Abdu ^a   Bener, Abdulbari ^a   Teebi, Ahmad S ^b  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QATAR; TRISOMY;

COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; MATERNAL AGE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QATAR;

EID: 33645463314     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2006.00593.x     Document Type: Letter

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