Birth weight of twins: 2. Fetal genetic effect on birth weight

Intraclass correlation coefficients were calculated for the birth weights of twins born at three southeastern Brazilian hospitals, after adjustment of the natural logarithms of these weights for gestational age, its quadratic and cubic terms, sex, and their interactions. The data indicate that fetal...

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Main Authors: Bernardo Beiguelman, Glória M.D.D. Colletto, Carla Franchi-Pinto, Henrique Krieger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 1998-03-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571998000100026