Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title: Rare genital malformations in women's health research: sociodemographic, regional, and 
disease related characteristics of patients with Mayer -Rokitansky -Küster -Hauser syndrome  
 
Version: 3 Date: 21 Mar 2020  
 
Reviewer: Karina Kapczuk  
 
Reviewer's report : 
 
The corrections and explications made by the authors are satisfactory except point 4.  
Please change c onsequently genital to urogenital malformations (abstract line 75, aims line 139, 
discussion line 336, Figure 1) or show the exact numbers of genital malformations and 
renal/urinary tract malformations in the family members. In my opinion you shouldn't com pare 
the incidence of urogenital malformations in the patients family members with the incidence of 
genital malformations in the other mentioned groups. You should set apart the cases of genital 
malformations to make such comparison or introduce the preval ence of renal malformations at 
least in the general population.  
 
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Yes 
 
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No 
 
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?  
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Yes 
 
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I am able to assess the statistics  
 
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Acceptable  
 
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