Occurrence of cleft lip and palate in the Faroe Islands and Greenland from 1950 to 1999

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 426-430

  Jakobsen, Linda P ^a   Mølsted, Kirsten ^b   Christensen, Kaare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Inst of Speech/Hearing Disorders ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cleft lip and palate; Epidemiology; Etiology; Genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP PALATE; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAROE ISLANDS; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; SEX RATIO;

EID: 0038106302     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/1545-1569(2003)040<0426:OOCLAP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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