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ArticleThe Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association2025

Cleft lip Sidedness and the Association with Additional Congenital Malformations.

Matthew Fell, Kate J Fitzsimons, Mark J Hamilton, Jibby Medina, Sophie Butterworth, Min Hae Park, Jan Van der Meulen, Sarah Lewis, David Chong, Craig Jh Russell

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Article in The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. The role of Rho GTPases in facial morphogenesis.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
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10 authors.

Matthew FellSpires Cleft Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7776-2877
Kate J FitzsimonsCleft Registry and Audit Network, Clinical Effectiveness Unit, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2385-3172
Mark J HamiltonWest of Scotland Centre for Genomic Medicine, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow UK.
Jibby MedinaCleft Registry and Audit Network, Clinical Effectiveness Unit, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London UK.
Sophie ButterworthCleft Registry and Audit Network, Clinical Effectiveness Unit, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5867-2625
Min Hae ParkDepartment of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK.
Jan Van der MeulenDepartment of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK.
Sarah LewisThe Cleft Collective, Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
David ChongThe Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Craig Jh RussellRoyal Hospital for Children, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ObjectiveTo investigate the association between the sidedness of orofacial clefts and additional congenital malformations.DesignLinkage of a national registry of cleft births to national administrative data of hospital admissionsSettingNational Health Service, EnglandParticipants2007 children born with cleft lip ± alveolus (CL ± A) and 2724 with cleft lip and palate (CLP) born between 2000 and 2012.Main outcome measureThe proportion of children with ICD-10 codes for additional congenital malformations by the sidedness (left, right or bilateral) of orofacial clefts.ResultsFor CL ± A phenotypes, there was no evidence for a difference in the prevalence of additional anomalies between left (22%, reference), right (22%, aOR 1.02, 95% CI 0.80 to 1.28;

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Abnormalities, MultipleCleft LipCleft PalateEnglandFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornMalePhenotypePrevalenceRegistriescleft lipcleft lip and palateepidemiologyetiology

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