Consanguineous marriage in a newly developed country: The Qatari population

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-246

  Bener, Abdulbari ^a,b   Alali, Khalid A ^b  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b Qatar University   (Qatar)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INBREEDING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; QATAR; RELATIVE; SPOUSE; URBAN AREA; AGE; CONSANGUINITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CONSANGUINITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; QATAR; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33646463966     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932004007060     Document Type: Article

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