About the Authors

Joan K. Morris

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

j.k.morris@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliation Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Anna L. Springett

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ruth Greenlees

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty Life & Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom

Maria Loane

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty Life & Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom

Marie-Claude Addor

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Woman-Mother-Child, University Hospital Center CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Larraitz Arriola

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Division of, Biodonostia Research Institute, San Sebastián, Spain

Ingeborg Barisic

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Reproductive Health,Children’s Hospital Zagreb, Medical School University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Jorieke E. H. Bergman

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Melinda Csaky-Szunyogh

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Public Health and Medical Officer Service, Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry, Budapest, Hungary

Carlos Dias

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Estudos e registo de A C, Lisbon, Portugal

Elizabeth S. Draper

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Ester Garne

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatric department, Hospital Lillebaelt, Kolding, Denmark

Miriam Gatt

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Directorate for Health Information and Research, Guardamangia, Malta

Babak Khoshnood

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paris Registry of Congenital Anomalies, Inserm UMR 1153, Obstetrical, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team, Center for Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France

Kari Klungsoyr

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Division for mental and physical health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway

Catherine Lynch

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive, Kilkenny, Ireland

Robert McDonnell

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland

Vera Nelen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Provincial Institute for Hygiene, Antwerp, Belgium

Amanda J. Neville

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IMER Registry, Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Azienda Ospedaliero- Universitaria di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Mary O'Mahony

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive, Cork, Ireland

Anna Pierini

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy

Annette Queisser-Luft

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for child and adolescence medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Hanitra Randrianaivo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Registre des Malformations Congenitales de la Reunion, St Pierre, Ile de la Reunion, France

Judith Rankin

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Anke Rissmann

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malformation Monitoring Centre Saxony-Anhalt, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Jennifer Kurinczuk

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Perinatal and Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

David Tucker

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom

Christine Verellen-Dumoulin

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics,Institut de Pathologie at de Genetique, Charleroi, Belgium

Diana Wellesley

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Southampton and Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Southampton, United Kingdom

Helen Dolk

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty Life & Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.