Consanguineous marriages and congenital anomalies

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9901, 2013, Pages 1316-1317

  Bittles, Alan H ^a,b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 85027932537     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61503-2     Document Type: Note

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