Consanguinity and prevalence patterns of inherited disease in the UK Pakistani community

Human Heredity

Volumn 77, Issue 1-4, 2014, Pages 207-216

  Corry, Peter C ^a  

^a BRADFORD INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autosomal recessive conditions; Consanguinity; Inherited disease; UK Pakistani community

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLEEDING DISORDER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CILIARY DYSKINESIA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONSANGUINITY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FAMILY SIZE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INFANT MORTALITY; KNOWLEDGE; MICROCEPHALY; MORBIDITY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREVALENCE; RARE DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; RECESSIVE GENE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD DEATH; COMMUNITY; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC DRIFT; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PAKISTANI;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CONSANGUINITY; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84904916611     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000362598     Document Type: Article

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