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. 2015 Mar 29;15:76. doi: 10.1186/s12884-015-0507-2

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Characteristics of newborns with an overt malformation. Panel A shows the birth weight of offspring with an overt malformation (yellow symbols) superimposed on that of the non-malformed population (green symbols). The risk of having a malformed newborn decreases with increasing duration of the pregnancy (panel B; R² = 0.38) and the number of deliveries (panel C; R² = 0.68). Panel D shows that all malformed females (pink symbols) were born prior to 36 weeks of gestation (R² = 0.45), whereas 90% of malformed males (blue symbols) were born after 36 weeks of gestation (R² = 0.66).