Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 1052-1057 , December 2009

Non-Linear and Gender-Specific Relationships Among Placental Growth Measures and The Fetoplacental Weight Ratio

  • D.P. Misra

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 101 E. Alexandrine, Room 203, Detroit, MI 48201, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 313 577 8199; fax: +1 313 577 3070.
    • ,
  • C.M. Salafia

      Affiliations

    • Placental Analytics, LLC, Larchmont, NY, United States
    • Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disability, Staten Island, NY, United States
    • ,
  • R.K. Miller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States
    • ,
  • A.K. Charles

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Princess Margaret Memorial Hospital, Perth WA, United States

,Accepted 21 September 2009.

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☆ This study was supported by a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, Great Neck, NY (Dr Salafia); grants (1 K23 MH067857-01) Mid Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health (Dr. Salafia). Additional support was provided by a grant from Placental Analytics LLC.

PII: S0143-4004(09)00304-X

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.09.008

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 1052-1057 , December 2009

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