Biosocial perspective of consanguineous marriages in rural and urban Swat, Pakistan

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 305-313

  Wahab, Abdul ^a   Ahmad, Mahmud ^b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INBREEDING; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PROGENY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029996702     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0021932000022379     Document Type: Article

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