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What do we know and what can we hope to learn further about the environmental causes of congenital malformations in people? These pages have shown that the causes of major malformations of external origin that have been discovered and are now known are relatively few. And it may perhaps be that further discovery of environmental causes of congenital malformations with major significance has reached a plateau, perhaps a breathing spell. Should this be encouraging?
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Kalter, H. (2010). The Accomplishment and the Expectation. In: Teratology in the Twentieth Century Plus Ten. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8820-8_16
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