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Confounding Underlies the Apparent Month of Birth Effect in Multiple Sclerosis
OBJECTIVE: Several groups have reported apparent association between month of birth and multiple sclerosis. We sought to test the extent to which such studies might be confounded by extraneous variables such as year and place of birth. METHODS: Using national birth statistics from 2 continents, we a...
Autores principales: | Fiddes, Barnaby, Wason, James, Kemppinen, Anu, Ban, Maria, Compston, Alastair, Sawcer, Stephen |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23744589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ana.23925 |
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