Impact of prenatal technologies on the sex ratio in India: An overview

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 425-432

  Madan, Kamlesh ^a   Breuning, Martijn H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

prenatal technology; sex ratio in India

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHINA; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANTICIDE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SELECTIVE ABORTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBAN POPULATION;

CHINA; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANTICIDE; MALE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84902119519     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: 15300366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2013.172     Document Type: Review

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