Association of maternal xenobiotic-metabolizing gene polymorphisms with risk of fetal growth restriction

Ling Yu1, Yun Hu1, Yiling Ding1

  • 1Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China.

Personalized Medicine
|July 20, 2019
PubMed

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