Bias in patient series with VACTERL association

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2039-2041

  Jenetzky, Ekkehart ^a   Wijers, Charlotte H W ^b   Marcelis, Carlo M ^b   Zwink, Nadine ^a   Reutter, Heiko ^c   van Rooij, Iris A L M ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; HUMAN; LETTER; LIMB MALFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SAMPLING ERROR; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; VACTERL ASSOCIATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79960566160     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33983     Document Type: Letter

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