Epidemiological aspects of Mendelian syndromes in a Spanish population sample: I. Autosomal dominant malformation syndromes.

doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320380424

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Epidemiological aspects of Mendelian syndromes in a Spanish population sample: I. Autosomal dominant malformation syndromes.

American journal of medical genetics - 15 Mar 1991

Martínez-Frías M L, Cereijo A, Bermejo E, López M, Sánchez M, Gonzalo C

Abstract excerpt

Using a sample of 710,815 liveborn infants throughout Spain, monitored from April, 1976, to December, 1988, by the Spanish Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECEMC), we estimated the prevalence of each recognized autosomal dominant malformation syndrome for a total prevalence figure...

Topics

Abnormalities, Multiple
Birth Rate
Genes, Dominant
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Mutation
Prevalence
Spain

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