Risks of selected congenital malformations among offspring of mixed race-ethnicity

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 820-824

  Yang, Juan ^a   Carmichael, Suzan L ^a   Kaidarova, Zhanna ^a   Shaw, Gary M ^a  

^a California Birth Defects Monitoring Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital malformations; Mixed race ethnicity; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ETHNOLOGY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; INTESTINE ATRESIA; MICROTIA; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINA BIFIDA; STILLBIRTH;

ABNORMALITIES; CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

MICROTIA;

EID: 8144230418     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20054     Document Type: Article

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