Prenatal Diagnosis and Screening
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Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis
In recent years the prevalence of Down syndrome has been increasing. The increase in the prevalence might be partly explained by better compilation of statistics on Down syndrome today. Also, the mean maternal age at first delivery as well as the proportion of older moth‐ ers is increasing in all western countries and the risk of Down syndrome increases with ad‐ vancing maternal age [1]. The pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Genetics
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1468-6244
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.30.8.710-a