Consanguineous marriages in the province of Antalya, Turkey

Annales de Genetique

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-138

  Alper, O M ^a,b   Erengin, H ^a   Manguoglu A E ^a   Bilgen, T ^a   Cetin Z ^a   Dedeoglu N ^a   Luleci G ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Consanguinity; Epidemiology; Marriage statistics population surveillance; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; RANDOMIZATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN POPULATION;

CONSANGUINITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; TURKEY;

EID: 2942618827     PISSN: 00033995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anngen.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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