Skewed X Chromosome Inactivation and Trisomic Spontaneous Abortion: No Association

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-193

  Warburton, Dorothy ^a   Kline, Jennie ^a,b,c   Kinney, Ann ^a   Yu, Chih yu ^a   Levin, Bruce ^a   Brown, Stephen ^d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FOLLOW UP; HIGHLY SKEWED X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOSOMY X; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT ABORTION; RELIABILITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRIPLOIDY; TRISOMY; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION ASSAY;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRISOMY; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 68249098639     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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