Live birth sex ratio after in Vitro fertilization and embryo transfer in China - An analysis of 121,247 babies from 18 centers e113522

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Bu, Zhiqin ^a   Chen, Zi Jiang ^c   Huang, Guoning ^d   Zhang, Hanwang ^e   Wu, Qiongfang ^f   Yanping, Ma ^g   Shi, Juanzi ^h   Xu, Yanwen ⁱ   Zhang, Songying ^j   Zhang, Cuilian ^k   Zhao, Xiaoming ^l   Bo Zhang, Yuanhua Huang ^m,n   Sun, Zhengyi ^o   Kang, Yuefan ^p   Wu, Riran ^q   Wu, Xueqing ^r   Sun, Haixiang ^b   Sun, Yingpu ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Chongqing Obstetric and Gynecology Hospital   (China)

^e HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f Reproductive Medicine Centre Women and Children Hospital of Jiangxi Province   (China)

^g First People s Hospital of Yunnan Province   (China)

^h Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital of Shaanxi Province   (China)

ⁱ THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k HENAN PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^l SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^m MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH HOSPITAL OF GUANGXI ZHUANG AUTONOMOUS REGION   (China)

ⁿ HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^o PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^p Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital of Fujian Province   (China)

^q Zhongshan bo'Ai Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University   (China)

^r Shanxi Modern Women Hospital   (China)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABY; BLASTOCYST; CHINA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PROGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BLASTOCYST; CHINA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX RATIO; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84912139552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113522     Document Type: Article

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