Maternal Contributions to Preterm Delivery

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 170, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1358-1364

  Boyd, Heather A ^a   Poulsen, Gry ^a   Wohlfahrt, Jan ^a   Murray, Jeffrey C ^b   Feenstra, Bjarke ^a   Melbye, Mads ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Family; Genetics; Inheritance patterns; Premature birth

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DATABASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MATERNAL EFFECT; MITOCHONDRION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DENMARK; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PREMATURE LABOR; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 70849096100     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp324     Document Type: Article

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