The bases of western attitudes to consanguineous marriage

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-138

  Bittles, A H ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; BIOMETRY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; GENE POOL; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC TRAIT; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INBREEDING; INHERITANCE; LAW; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECESSIVE GENE; RELATIVE; RELIGION; REVIEW; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSANGUINITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRISTIANITY; CONSANGUINITY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL VALUES; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 0037313350     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2003.tb00917.x     Document Type: Review

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