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César Velasco-Téllez\*, Manuel Cortés-Bonilla, Guillermo Ortiz-Luna, Linda Sánchez-Zelayeta, Horacio Méndez-Serrano, Cinthya Salazar-Jiménez, Abraham Zavala-García and Alicia Sánchez-Cevallos National Institute of Perinatology "Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes", Mexico City, Mexico

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