Association between the rates of multiple maternities

Twin Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 387-397

  Fellman, Johan ^a   Eriksson, Aldur W ^a  

^a FOLKHÄLSAN INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TWINS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; SWEDEN;

EID: 6344272395     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/1369052042335340     Document Type: Article

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