Summary of the 10th international conference on neural tube defects

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas.
² Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Editorial

A J Agopian et al. Birth Defects Res. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 15;111(14):945-946.

doi: 10.1002/bdr2.1519. Epub 2019 Jun 18.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas.
² Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

No abstract available

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