Ethnic differences in birth weight: Maternal effects emerge from an analysis involving mixed-race US couples

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 706-711

  Van Den Oord, Edwin J C G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Ethnicity; Genetics; Maternal effects

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HEALTH SURVEY; HEREDITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FATHER; FEMALE; GENETICS; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749321861     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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