HLA haplotypes and birth weight variation: Is your future going to be light or heavy?

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 156-163

  Capittini, C ^a   Pasi, A ^b   Bergamaschi, P ^b   Tinelli, C ^b   De Silvestri, A ^b   Mercati, M P ^b   Badulli, C ^b   Garlaschelli, F ^b   Sbarsi, I ^b   Guarene, M ^b   Martinetti, M ^b   Salvaneschi, L ^b   Cuccia, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Foetal growth; Human leucocyte antigen region; Umbilical cord blood bank

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY;

EID: 67650550637     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2009.01282.x     Document Type: Article

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