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The prevalence at birth was 0.52\/1000 births for anencephalus, 0.51\/1000 for spina bifida, and 0.08\/1000 for encephalocele, rates considered to be low for a predominantly white population.<\/jats:p><jats:p>We hypothesized that environmental (nongenetic) factors are of less etiologic importance in a low\u2010prevalence population than in areas or time periods with high prevalence. We tested that hypothesis by examining epidemiologic characteristics of NTDs in Los Angeles County and comparing them with high\u2010prevalence populations. The data did not support a major etiologic role for environmental factors: (1) no significant differences between rates by month of birth or conception; (2) no significant association with maternal age or parity for anencephalus; for spina bifida a significant maternal age effect (P &lt; 0.01) and for encephalocele a parity effect (P &lt; 0.02); and (3) no significant relationship with father's occupational class for either anencephalus or encephalocele but a marginally significant (P &lt; 0.05) inverse association for spina bifida when a statistic based on ordinal relationships was used.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Findings supporting the importance of genetic factors in etiology included: (1) a high percentage of males; (2) a higher twin concordance rate than in high\u2010prevalence populations; and (3) an anencephalus rate among blacks comparable with rates for blacks in other United States populations. 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