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Exposure of the fetus to bisphenol-A was estimated from maternal serum collected at 15\u201316 weeks of gestation. We pooled sera across subjects for exposure assessment, stratified on case-referent status and sex. Individual 1:1 matching was maintained in assembling 69 case and 69 referent pools created from 550 case-referent pairs. Matched pools had an equal number of aliquots from individual women. We used an analytical strategy conditioning on matched set and total pool-level values of covariates to estimate individual-level effects. Pools of cases and referents had identical geometric  mean bisphenol-A concentrations (0.5 ng\/mL) and similar geometric standard deviations (2.3\u20132.5). Mean difference in concentration between matched pools was 0 ng\/mL,  standard deviation: 1 ng\/mL. Stratification by sex and control for confounding did not suggest bisphenol-A increased fetal growth restriction. 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