Volume 28 - Article 5 | Pages 137–176
Impact of parental ages and other characteristics at childbearing on congenital anomalies: Results for the Czech Republic, 2000-2007
By Jitka Rychtarikova, Catherine Gourbin, Guillaume Wunsch, Antonín Šípek
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