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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2006 Jul 15;306(4):360–378. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.21092

TABLE 1.

Epidemiological observations pertaining to sagittal and coronal synostosis

Diagnosis % of all craniosynostoses Birth prevalence
estimates (per 10,000 live births)		 Sex distribution
Sagittal synostosis 40–58 1.9–2.3 3.5♂:1♀
Unilateral and bilateral coronal synostosis 20–30 0.8–1.0 1♂:2♀

Data taken from Hunter and Rudd ('76); Lajeunie et al. '95, ('96); Merrer et al. ('88).