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Cases must meet the following criteria:

  • Infant or fetus whose mother lives in the five-county metropolitan Atlanta area at the time of birth.
  • Infant or fetus with a birth defect on the list of standard diagnoses.
  • Infant or fetus with a birth defect identified by the child’s sixth birthday.
  • Live, stillborn, or terminated infant or fetus with a gestational age greater than or equal to 20 weeks.

Date: June 16, 2008
Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

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