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Additional data on spontaneous abortion and facial cleft malformations
Author(s) -
Bear J. C.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1983.tb00095.x
Subject(s) - medicine , abortion , gynecology , fetus , obstetrics , pregnancy , biology , genetics
Examination of fetal wastage data for a large collection of CL ± P and CP sibships reported previously (Bear 1978) does not indicate the frequency of recognized abortion to be higher in the sibships of CL + P vs CL index cases, female vs male CL ± P index cases, bilateral vs unilateral CL ± P index cases, female bilateral CL ± P index cases vs male unilateral CL ± P index cases, or male vs female CP index cases. These observations fail to confirm those reported by Dronamraju (Dronamraju et al. 1982, Dronamraju & Bixler 1983a, b), and provide no evidence of a positive relation between degree of liability to facial cleft malformation and fetal mortality.