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Maternal Preconception Diet and the Sex Ratio

1 Feb 2010

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Temporal variations in the sex ratio, or the ratio of boys to girls at birth, have been widely studied and variously attributed to social changes, conditions of war, and environmental changes. Recently, Mathews et al. ["You are what your mother eats: Evidence for maternal preconception diet influencing fetal sex in humans," Proc. R. Soc. bond. B 275:1661-1668 (2008)] studied the direct evidence of individual...

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PMID: 20504173
DOI: 10.3378/027.082.0106

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