Bimodal rhythms of general conceptions and the birth-month phenomenon in schizophrenia, neural tube defects, and laterality: A solstitial hypothesis

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 249-257

  Marzullo, Giovanni ^a   Boklage, Charles E ^b  

^a Per Aspera Research Foundation   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual photoperiod; Asymmetry development; Cerebral asymmetries; Early pregnancy loss; Epigenetics; Oxidant stress; Selective embryonic survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; COMORBIDITY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGENETICS; FETAL WELL BEING; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NIDATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUNLIGHT; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ANTIOXIDANTS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MELATONIN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEASONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954570452     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20806     Document Type: Article

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