Considering factors affecting the parental decision to abort after a prenatal diagnosis of a sex chromosome abnormality
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics in Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1098-3600,1530-0366
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2012.32