Consanguinity and dysmorphology in Arabs

Human Heredity

Volumn 77, Issue 1-4, 2014, Pages 93-107

  Al Gazali, Lihadh ^a   Hamamy, Hanan ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabs; Consanguinity; Dysmorphology

Indexed keywords

AGENESIS OF CORPUS CALLOSUM COLOBOMA MENTAL RETARDATION; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARAB; ARTERIAL TORTUOSITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; CONGENITAL DISORDER OF GLYCOSYLATION TYPE 1; CONGENITAL DISORDER OF GLYCOSYLATION TYPE 1Q; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONSANGUINITY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VALUE; CUTIS LAXA; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; ELLIS VAN CREVELD SYNDROME; FACIOGENITAL DYSPLASIA; FAMILY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; JOUBERT SYNDROME; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LIMB PELVIS HYPOPLASIA APLASIA SYNDROME; MECKEL SYNDROME; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; ROBINOW SYNDROME; SANJAD SAKATI SYNDROME; SCANTY HAIR; SOCIAL BELIEF; SPONDYLOEPIPHYSEAL DYSPLASIA; SPONDYLOMETEPIPHYSEAL DYSPLASIA; STUVE WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; SYNDROME; TERATOLOGY; WOODHOUSE SAKATI SYNDROME; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BIRTH DEFECT; CONGENITAL DISORDER OF GLYCOSYLATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE POOL; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM RETARDATION DYSMORPHISM; INBREEDING; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; SHORT LIMB ABNORMAL CALCIFICATION TYPE SPONDYLOMETAEPIPHYSEAL DYSPLASIA; TEMTAMY SYNDROME; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETICS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE EAST; PEDIGREE; RECESSIVE GENE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ARABS; CONSANGUINITY; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE EAST; PEDIGREE;

EID: 84904906735     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000360421     Document Type: Article

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