Frequency of consanguineous marriages in patients with hereditary blood disorders in southern Turkey

Community Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 58-

  Canatan, Duran ^a   Karadoǧan, Cavidan ^b   Oǧuz, Nurgül ^b   Balta, Nihal ^b   Coşan, Rüya ^b  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Antalya State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD DISEASE; CHILD DEATH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; THALASSEMIA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; TURKEY;

EID: 0037942621     PISSN: 14222795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069542     Document Type: Letter

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