The rate of consanguineous marriages among parents of schizophrenic patients in the Arab Bedouin population in Southern Israel

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 334-336

  Dobrusin, Michael ^a   Weitzman, Dahlia ^a   Levine, Joseph ^a   Kremer, Ilana ^b   Rietschel, Marcella ^c   Maier, Wolfgang ^c   Belmaker, Robert H ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Afula Medical Center   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bedouin; Consanguinity; Genetics; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INBREEDING; ISRAEL; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; ARABS; COHORT STUDIES; CONSANGUINITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 70449761568     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15622970701849960     Document Type: Article

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