Talk:Ectrodactyly

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Hi, hopefully somone will read this. I found this line "It affects about 1 in 90,000 babies, with males and females equally as likely to be affected." on the wiki page. And when reading it it seemed a little hight. I looked it up, and found this page : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=183600 which is presumably wher the creator of this article got the stat from. It says that somone estimated in 1949 in denmark that the occourance rate is 1 in 90,000. It doesn't seem to me that that is fact, and so I would have taken it out of the article, but I don;t know how wikipedia treats that so I created this talk page. 66.108.49.233 05:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)micah

I agree, I may not be a doctor, but with a 1 in 90,000 rate, that's about 70,000 or so people suffering it worldwide, and it doesn't seem right.

--66.201.165.240 01:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)