Sentences with phrase «offspring with a birth defect»

First cousins are two - times more likely to bear offspring with a birth defect than children born of couples who don't share a common grandparent.

Not exact matches

By swapping some of one mother's genes for another, an offspring can end up without birth defects (but with two mothers).

Surveillance that is not stringent enough, on the other hand, would allow eggs with a lot of jumping gene - related errors to survive, and lead to a high level of birth defects, such as those caused by an incorrect number of chromosomes in the offspring.

«Teratogenicity of High Vitamin A Intake» by Kenneth J. Rothman of the Boston University School of Medicine and his colleagues, correlates vitamin A consumption among more than 22,000 pregnant women with birth defects occurring in subsequent offspring.

The offspring whose fathers had insufficient folate had an increased number of birth defects compared to the group with sufficient paternal folate.