… Gestational length, fetal presentation, birth weight, and perinatal survival data are collected
to improve phenotype definition of specific defects. Information is directly collected from the …

Sirenomelia is a very rare limb anomaly in which the normally paired lower limbs are replaced
by a single midline limb. This study describes the prevalence, associated malformations, …

… Orioli and Castilla 2007 determined whether craniofacial and non-craniofacial defects in
HPE cases were in excess when compared to the expected numbers. They confirmed the …

Background Cleft lip or palate (or the two in combination) is a common birth defect that results
from a mixture of genetic and environmental factors. We searched for a specific genetic …

This study was undertaken to establish the prevalence rates at birth of the skeletal
dysplasias that can be recognised in the perinatal period. Using the data base of the Latin-American …

MSX1 has been proposed as a gene in which mutations may contribute to non-syndromic
forms of cleft lip and/or cleft palate. Support for this comes from human linkage and linkage …

Nonsyndromic or isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) occurs in wide geographic
distribution with an average birth prevalence of 1/700. We used direct sequencing as an …

… How to cite this article: Castilla EE, Mastroiacovo P, Orioli IM. 2008. Gastroschisis: … in the
program's Procedures Manual [Castilla and Orioli, 2004] and summarized in six characteristics …

To verify whether the decreasing neural tube defects birth prevalence rates in Chile are due
to folic acid fortification or to pre‐existing decreasing trends, we performed a population …

Orofacial clefts (OFCs), which include non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P),
are among the most common birth defects in humans, affecting approximately 1 in 700 …