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Also Known As	birth defect • congenital malformation • congenital disease • congenital anomaly

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myotonia congenita imprinting defect teratogenesis chondroectodermal dysplasia hereditary elliptocytosis phimosis anorchism congenital dislocation arthrogryposis multiplex congenita Janus head nutritional disease AIDS malaria diabetes mellitus tuberculosis Alzheimer disease influenza breast cancer colorectal cancer measles

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