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About 3% of babies born have a birth defect, by teen years, an additional 10 to 15% of birth defects are actually discovered! So these problems are both common, and difficult to understand. An important part of protecting the developing fetus is the prevention of these birth defects, and trying to understand what the medical community can do to prevent these defects has spun off into many avenues of scientific research. One thing that we always want to know when a baby has been diagnosed with a birth defect is whether this was a random occurrence, or whether the birth defect represents a part of a condition or syndrome that may occur again. EUROCAT study watches over 3 million births, and looks at 98,000 birth defects (congenital Anomalies) in 14 European countries over the decade that spanned 1995 to 2005. And mostly they are seeing and following defects that either have never been previously been reported or have been seen somewhere by physicians, but are extremely rare. Thes...