Consanguinity: Implications for practice, research, and policy

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9515, 2006, Pages 970-971

  Teebi, Ahmad S ^a   El Shanti, Hatem I ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECT; CONSANGUINITY; FETUS WASTAGE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DISORDER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE EAST; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33645103135     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68406-7     Document Type: Note

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