Sex ratio in sibships with twins

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 204-214

  Fellman, Johan ^a   Eriksson, Aldur W ^a  

^a FOLKHÄLSAN INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIRTH RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWINS; VITAL STATISTICS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGISTRIES; SEX RATIO; SIBLINGS; TWINS;

EID: 41949136009     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.11.2.204     Document Type: Article

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