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Birth prevalence of non-syndromic orofacial clefts in Saudi Arabia and the effects of parental consanguinity

Heba J. Sabbagh, Nicola P. Innes, Bahauddin I. Sallout, Najlaa M. Alamoudi, Mustafa A. Hamdan, Nasir Alhamlan, Amaal I. Al-Khozami, Fatma D. Abdulhameed, Jumana Y. Al-Aama and Peter A. Mossey
Saudi Medical Journal September 2015, 36 (9) 1076-1083; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.9.11823
Heba J. Sabbagh
From the Division of Oral Health Sciences (Sabbagh), Pediatric Dentistry (Innes), Dundee Dental School, Division of Oral Health Sciences and WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Health and Craniofacial Anomalies (Mossey), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Department (Sallout), Women’s Specialized Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Plastic Surgery Department (Hamdan), King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Orthodontic Division (Alhamlan), King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh, Pediatric Dentistry (Alamoudi), Faculty of Dentistry, Pediatric Department, Nursing Services (Al-Khozami), King Abdulaziz University, Genetic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine (Al-Aama), Princess Al-Jawhara Albrahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Pediatric Surgery (Abdulhameed), Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Ministry of Health, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Nicola P. Innes
From the Division of Oral Health Sciences (Sabbagh), Pediatric Dentistry (Innes), Dundee Dental School, Division of Oral Health Sciences and WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Health and Craniofacial Anomalies (Mossey), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Department (Sallout), Women’s Specialized Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Plastic Surgery Department (Hamdan), King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Orthodontic Division (Alhamlan), King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh, Pediatric Dentistry (Alamoudi), Faculty of Dentistry, Pediatric Department, Nursing Services (Al-Khozami), King Abdulaziz University, Genetic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine (Al-Aama), Princess Al-Jawhara Albrahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Pediatric Surgery (Abdulhameed), Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Ministry of Health, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Bahauddin I. Sallout
From the Division of Oral Health Sciences (Sabbagh), Pediatric Dentistry (Innes), Dundee Dental School, Division of Oral Health Sciences and WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Health and Craniofacial Anomalies (Mossey), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Department (Sallout), Women’s Specialized Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Plastic Surgery Department (Hamdan), King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Orthodontic Division (Alhamlan), King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh, Pediatric Dentistry (Alamoudi), Faculty of Dentistry, Pediatric Department, Nursing Services (Al-Khozami), King Abdulaziz University, Genetic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine (Al-Aama), Princess Al-Jawhara Albrahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Pediatric Surgery (Abdulhameed), Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Ministry of Health, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Najlaa M. Alamoudi
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Mustafa A. Hamdan
From the Division of Oral Health Sciences (Sabbagh), Pediatric Dentistry (Innes), Dundee Dental School, Division of Oral Health Sciences and WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Health and Craniofacial Anomalies (Mossey), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Department (Sallout), Women’s Specialized Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Plastic Surgery Department (Hamdan), King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Orthodontic Division (Alhamlan), King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh, Pediatric Dentistry (Alamoudi), Faculty of Dentistry, Pediatric Department, Nursing Services (Al-Khozami), King Abdulaziz University, Genetic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine (Al-Aama), Princess Al-Jawhara Albrahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Pediatric Surgery (Abdulhameed), Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Ministry of Health, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Amaal I. Al-Khozami
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vol. 36 no. 9 1076-1083
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.9.11823
PubMed 
26318465

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received March 30, 2015
  • Accepted July 15, 2015
  • Published online September 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Heba J. Sabbagh, MSc,
  2. Nicola P. Innes, PhD,
  3. Bahauddin I. Sallout, SBOG,
  4. Najlaa M. Alamoudi, MSc, DSc⇑,
  5. Mustafa A. Hamdan, FRCS (Ed),
  6. Nasir Alhamlan, MOrth RCS (Ed),
  7. Amaal I. Al-Khozami, BSN,
  8. Fatma D. Abdulhameed, JBPS,
  9. Jumana Y. Al-Aama, FCCMG and
  10. Peter A. Mossey, BDS, PhD
  1. From the Division of Oral Health Sciences (Sabbagh), Pediatric Dentistry (Innes), Dundee Dental School, Division of Oral Health Sciences and WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Health and Craniofacial Anomalies (Mossey), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Department (Sallout), Women’s Specialized Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Plastic Surgery Department (Hamdan), King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Orthodontic Division (Alhamlan), King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh, Pediatric Dentistry (Alamoudi), Faculty of Dentistry, Pediatric Department, Nursing Services (Al-Khozami), King Abdulaziz University, Genetic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine (Al-Aama), Princess Al-Jawhara Albrahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Pediatric Surgery (Abdulhameed), Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Ministry of Health, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Najlaa M. Alamoudi, Professor, Pediatric Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Nalamoudi2011{at}gmail.com
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