Do children with lupus have fewer male siblings?

Lupus

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 128-131

  Moorthy, L Nandini ^a,b   Peterson, M G E ^b   Onel, K B ^c   Lehman, T J A ^b,d  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Sex ratio; Sibling ratio; SLE

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX RATIO; SIBLINGS;

EID: 40449136970     PISSN: 09612033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961203307085111     Document Type: Article

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