The natural history and the national pre-marital screening program in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1549-1554

  El Hazmi, Mohsen A F ^a,b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TERATOGENIC AGENT;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMOPHILIA; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INHERITANCE; IONIZING RADIATION; LABOR COMPLICATION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PARENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RUBELLA; SAUDI ARABIA; SICKLE CELL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; THALASSEMIA; TOXOPLASMA;

ABNORMALITIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREMARITAL EXAMINATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 10644226914     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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