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What's the chance of having a clubbed thumb as a birth defect?
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Fair: A duplicated thumb is either a dominant inheritance or 50% chance or a spontaneous occurrence and almost no chance for a sib getting. A club thumb is similar.
Answered 10/26/2012
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