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A step in another direction: looking for maternal genetic and environmental effects on racial differences in birth weight.
Demography - 1 Nov 2001
Van Den Oord E J, Rowe D C
Abstract excerpt
To advance research on birth weight differences between black and white infants, it may be useful to study maternal effects. These effects present a set of risk factors that are largely unrelated to those that are presently under investigation and fail to explain the gap in birth weight; empirical findings suggest their involvement. Although maternal effects can be environmental, as illustrated by recent...
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