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

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

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