No "masculinization" effect of a male on birth weight of its female co-twin

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-257

  Tul, Nataša ^a   Lučovnik, Miha ^a   Novak, Živa ^a   Verdenik, Ivan ^a   Blickstein, Isaac ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fetal; gender; outcome; pregnancy; sex

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MULTIPARA; NEWBORN; NULLIPARA; PARITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; TWINS; VIRILIZATION;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TWIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 84861505281     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2011-0233     Document Type: Review

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