Spina bifida subtypes and sub-phenotypes by maternal race/ethnicity in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 158 A, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-115

  Agopian, A J ^a   Canfield, Mark A ^b   Olney, Richard S ^c   Lupo, Philip J ^a   Ramadhani, Tunu ^b   Mitchell, Laura E ^a   Shaw, Gary M ^d   Moore, Cynthia A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Congenital abnormalities; Descriptive epidemiology; Hispanic Americans; Meningocele; Myelocele; Myelomeningocele; Neural tube defects; Sex; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NEGRO; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RACE; SPINA BIFIDA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ENCEPHALOCELE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 84355166206     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.34383     Document Type: Article

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