Very rare defects: What can we learn?

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 252-261

  Castilla, Eduardo E ^a,b,c,d   Mastroiacovo, Pierpaolo ^e  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b CEMIC   (Argentina)

^c INAGEMP Instituto Nacional de Genetica Medica Populacional   (Brazil)

^d Birth Defects Surveillance and Research   (Italy)

^e Birth Defects and Research (ICBDSR)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clearinghouse; ICBDSR; Rare anomalies; Rare congenital anomalies; Rare defects

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; THALIDOMIDE;

ABORTION; ACARDIUS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CLOACA EXSTROPHY; CONJOINED TWINS; CYCLOPIA; DATA EXTRACTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPILEPSY; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KARYOTYPE; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; MATERNAL AGE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PATERNAL AGE; PHENOTYPE; PHOCOMELIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SIRENOMELIA; SMOKING; TERATOGENESIS; TERATOMA;

AMERICAS; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 80054875322     PISSN: 15524868     EISSN: 15524876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.c.30315     Document Type: Article

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