Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 3 , Pages 610-618 , March 2006

Egg donation parents and their children: follow-up at age 12 years

  • Clare Murray, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Susan Golombok, Ph.D., Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF, United Kingdom
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  • Fiona MacCallum, Ph.D.
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  • Susan Golombok, Ph.D.

Received 30 September 2004 ,Revised 30 August 2005 ,Accepted 30 August 2005.

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 Supported by the Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom.

PII: S0015-0282(05)03983-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.08.051

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 3 , Pages 610-618 , March 2006

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