A population-based estimate of the prevalence of consanguineous marriage in Western Australia

Community Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 97-101

  Port, K ^a,b   Bittles, A H ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Genetic Services of Western Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consanguineous marriage; Genetic counselling; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; INBREEDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRATION; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE;

EID: 0034756362     PISSN: 14222795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000051166     Document Type: Article

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