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αlpha is based on the following references:

1 . Report of UK Collaborative Study on Alpha-fetoprotein in relation to neural tube defects (1977)

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Maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein measurement in antenatal screening for anencephaly and spina bifida in early pregnancy. The lancet June, 1323-1332

9 . Screening for Down's syndrome (1990)

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Cuckle HS, Wald NJ

In: Lilford RJ (Ed). Prenatal Diagnosis and Prognosis. 67-92. Butterworth

18 . Detection of pregnancies with trisomy 18 in screening programmes for Down's syndrome (1995)

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Hackshaw AK, Kennard A, Wald NJ

J Med Screen 2, 228-229

19 . Risk-based prenatal screening for trisomy 18 using alpha-fetoprotein, unconjugated estriol and human chorionic gonadotropin (1995)

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Palomaki GE, Haddow JE, Knight GJ, Wald NJ et al

Prenat Diagn 15, 713-723

29 . Antenatal Screening for Down’s syndrome (1997)

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Wald NJ, Kennard A, Hackshaw A, McGuire A

J Med Screen 4, 181-246

30 . Empirical validation of risk screening for Down's syndrome (1996)

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Wald NJ, Hackshaw AK, Huttly W, Kennard A

J Med Screen 3, 185-187

35 . Fetal loss in Down syndrome pregnancies (1999)

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Morris JK, Wald NJ, Watt HC

Prenat Diagn 19, 142-145

36 . Screening for trisomy 18 by fetal nuchal translucency and maternal serum free β-hCG and PAPP-A at 10-14 weeks of gestation (1999)

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Tul N, Spencer K, Noble P, Chan C, Nicolaides K

Prenat Diagn 19, 1035-1042

37 . Validation of risk estimation using the quadruple test in prenatal screening for Down syndrome (1999)

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Wald NJ, Huttly WJ.

Prenat Diagn 19, 1083-1084

38 . Integrated screening for Down's syndrome based on tests performed during the first and second trimesters (1999)

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Wald NJ, Watt HC, Hackshaw AK

N Eng J Med 341, 461-467

40 . Neural tube defects (2000)

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In: Wald N, Leck I (Eds). Antenatal and neonatal screening. Chapter 3, 61-84 Oxford University Press

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Wald NJ, Hackshaw AK, George LM

J Med Screen 7, 74-77

42 . Revised distribution parameters for serum markers for trisomy 18 (2005)

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Hackshaw AK, Wald NJ

J Med Screen 7, 215

59 . Correction to SURUSS report (2006)

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Wald NJ, Rodeck C, Hackshaw AK, Walters J, Chitty L, Mackinson AM, Bestwick JP

J Med Screen 13, 51-52

66 . Maternal serum invasive trophoblast antigen (ITA) in first trimester trisomy 18 pregnancies (2005)

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Poster 2794 presented at The American Society for Human Genetics Annual Meeting, 2004, Toronto Canada.

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Wald NJ and Cuckle HS

Bailliere’s Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1, 649-676

78 . Estimating an individual's risk of having a fetus with open spina bifida and the value of repeat alpha fetoprotein testing. Fourth Report of the U.K. Collaborative Study on Alpha fetoprotein in Relation to Neural Tube Defects (1982)

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NJ Wald, HS Cuckle

J Epid Comm Hlth 36, 87 95

91 . Maternal illness and drug use in pregnancy (1992)

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JM Elwood, J Little and JH Elwood

In JM Elwood, J Little and JH Elwood (Eds) Epidemiology and control of neural tube defects  Oxford University Press

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Wald NJ, Densem J, Stone R, Cheng

Br J Obstet Gynaecol 100 550-557

94 . Prediction of early intermediate and late pre-eclampsia from maternal factors, biophysical and biochemical markers at 11-13 weeks (2011)

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Akolekar R, Syngelaki A, Sarquis R, Zvanca M, Nicolaides KH.

Prenat Diagn 31 66-74

95 . Competing risks model in early screening for preeclampsia by biophysical and biochemical markers (2013)

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Akolekar R, Syngelaki A, Poon L, Wright D, Nicolaides KH.

Fetal Diagn Ther 33 8-15

96 . Epidemiological clues to the causation of neural tube defects.

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In Dobbing J (Ed) Prevention of Spina Bifida and other Neural Tube Defects, 155-182 Academic Press, London, 1983

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Palomaki GE, Kloza EM, Lambert-Messerlian GM et al

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