Epidemiology of down syndrome: New insight into the multidimensional interactions among genetic and environmental risk factors in the oocyte

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 174, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1009-1016

  Ghosh, Sujoy ^a,b   Hong, Chang Sook ^c   Feingold, Eleanor ^c   Ghosh, Papiya ^d   Ghosh, Priyanka ^a   Bhaumik, Pranami ^a   Dey, Subrata Kumar ^a  

^a MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Sundarban Hazi Desarat College   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Bijoykrishna Girl's College   (India)

Author keywords

contraceptives; Down syndrome; genetic; maternal age; nondisjunction, genetic; oral; recombination; smokeless; tobacco

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

CHROMOSOME; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TOBACCO; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 21; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONDISJUNCTION; OOCYTE; SMOKELESS TOBACCO;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; OOCYTES; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

CALCUTTA; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 80054903547     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr240     Document Type: Article

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