The effect of inbreeding on early childhood mortality: Twelve generations of an Amish settlement

Demography

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 263-271

  Dorsten, Linda Eberst ^a   Hotchkiss, Lawrence ^b   King, Terri M ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; NEWBORN; PEDIGREE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ODDS RATIO; PEDIGREE; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033125071     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648113     Document Type: Article

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