Effect of gestational age on first trimester maternal serum prenatal screening correction factors for ethnicity and IVF conception

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-60

  Cowans, Nicholas J ^a   Spencer, Kevin ^a  

^a KING GEORGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD LEVEL; CAUCASIAN; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84872131170     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4010     Document Type: Article

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