Androgen concentrations in umbilical cord blood and their association with maternal, fetal and obstetric factors.

The aim of this study was to measure umbilical blood androgen concentrations in a birth cohort using a highly specific liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) assay and assesses the effects of sex, labor, and gestational age on fetal androgen levels at birth. We performed a prospec...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey A Keelan, Eugen Mattes, HaiWei Tan, Andrew Dinan, John P Newnham, Andrew J O Whitehouse, Peter Jacoby, Martha Hickey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3423422?pdf=render