Profile of major congenital malformations in neonates in Al-Jahra Region of Kuwait

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 700-706

  Madi, S A ^a   Al Naggar, R L ^b   Al Awadi, S A ^b   Bastaki, L A ^b  

^a AL JAHRA HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BIRTH; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL MALFORMATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL GENETICS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NEWBORN; SKELETON MALFORMATION; STILLBIRTH;

ABNORMALITIES; ARABS; BIRTH RATE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CONSANGUINITY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; KUWAIT; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 33646183647     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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