Commentary: On 'Transmission through the female line of a mechanism constraining human fetal growth' - Does it exist?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 250-252

  Cnattingius, Sven ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKING; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC LINE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NOTE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RELATIVE; SIBLING; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREEDING; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 41849140839     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn009     Document Type: Note

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