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Better communication between experts is needed to solve the environmental origins of birth defects
- Abstract:
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More than 6% of babies are born with a structural or functional defect, and many of these need special care and treatment to survive and thrive. Such defects can be inherited, arise through exposure to altered conditions or compounds in the womb, or result from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Since the 1940s, animal experiments and epidemiological studies have identified many environmental factors that can cause particular birth defects. More recently, advances in genomics...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BioEssays Journal website
- Volume:
- 44
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- 2100241
- Publication date:
- 2021-11-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-11-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1521-1878
- ISSN:
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0265-9247
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1214159
- Local pid:
- pubs:1214159
- Deposit date:
- 2021-12-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Duncan B. Sparrow
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- ©2021 The Authors. BioEssays published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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