Prevalence of consanguineous marriages in Syria

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 685-692

  Othman, Hasan ^a   Saadat, Mostafa ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INBREEDING; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; URBAN AREA; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSANGUINITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYRIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70349254401     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932009003411     Document Type: Article

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