Birth weight in a large series of triplets

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lamb, Diane J ^a   Middeldorp, Christel M ^a,b,c   van Beijsterveldt, Catharina E M ^a   Vink, Jacqueline M ^a   Haak, Monique C ^d   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c GGZ inGeest/VU medical center ^*  (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NETHERLANDS; SEX RATIO; STILLBIRTH; ZYGOSITY; CHILD; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TWINS; ZYGOTE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TRIPLETS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 79953236678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-24     Document Type: Article

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