Intergenerational predictors of birth weight in the philippines: Correlations with mother's and father's birth weight and test of maternal constraint

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Kuzawa, Christopher W ^a   Eisenberg, Dan T A ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FATHER; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER; PATERNITY TEST; PHILIPPINES; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRENATAL CARE; PROGENY; WORKING MOTHER;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; PHILIPPINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84864407851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040905     Document Type: Article

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