Maternal age and chromosomally abnormal pregnancies: What we know and what we wish we knew

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 703-708

  Hassold, Terry ^a   Hunt, Patricia ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal age; Recombination; Trisomy

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS RATE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRISOMY;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TRISOMY;

EID: 74549182595     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e328332c6ab     Document Type: Review

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