Regional variations in the prevalence of consanguinity in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1881-1884

  El Mouzan, Mohammad I ^a   Al Salloum, Abdullah A ^a   Al Herbish, Abdullah S ^a   Qurachi, Mansour M ^a   Al Omar, Ahmad A ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Children's Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAUDI ARABIA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

CONSANGUINITY; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SAUDI ARABIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 41149150905     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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