| In the most severe cases, children exposed to alcohol prenatally have a pattern of birth defects identified as fetal alcohol syndrome. |
| Many genetic and congenital disorders can be diagnosed prenatally through screening. |
| Malformations affecting the spine are often diagnosed prenatally or are apparent in the delivery room. |
| Like other mammals, female mice manufacture prenatally all the eggs they will ever have. |
| Abdominal wall defects, including gastroschisis and omphalocele, are usually diagnosed prenatally. |
| It has now become possible to identify disease causing germ-line mutations for a large number of diseases both prenatally and postnatally. |
