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Original Article

Secular Trends in Uncertain-Sex Births and Proportion of Male Births in Norway, 1967-1998

ÅGOT Irgens Haukeland University Hospital Department of Occupational Medicine Bergen, Norway
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Lorentz M. Irgens University of Bergen Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care Norway
Pages 554-559 | Published online: 07 Aug 2010

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