Intrauterine growth retardation as an endpoint in mutation epidemiology: an evaluation based on paternal age.

doi:10.1016/0165-1218(95)90043-8

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Intrauterine growth retardation as an endpoint in mutation epidemiology: an evaluation based on paternal age.

Mutation research - 1 Aug 1995

Olshan A F, Ananth C V, Savitz D A

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Czeizel recently suggested that intrauterine growth retardation might be of value as a phenotypic endpoint in mutation epidemiology. We hypothesized that if some fraction of small-for-gestational age (SGA) births are due to new germinal mutations, then an association with advanced paternal age sh...

Topics

Adolescent
Adult
Female
Fetal Growth Retardation
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature
Male
Middle Aged
Mutation
Paternal Age
Pregnancy

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