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From all I have read and studied (I am a 2nd semester senior nursing student at a major university) Spina Bifida is not so much a chromosomal defect as a neural defect caused by a lack of folic acid during the very early stages of pregnancy.

This is why women who wish to get pregnant are encouraged to begin taking folic acid BEFORE they actually get pregnant.

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