Screening for Prenatal Alcohol Exposure using Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters as Biomarkers

Diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is challenging and typically requires confirmation of in utero alcohol exposure. Due to the poor reliability of maternal self-reports, biomarkers have emerged to address the problem of obtaining exposure history. A relatively novel method for det...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zelner, Irene
Other Authors: Koren, Gideon
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43771