Consanguinity among the Saudi Arabian population.
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Consanguinity among the Saudi Arabian population.
This study was conducted on 3212 Saudi families to investigate the prevalence of consanguineous marriages. The families were interviewed and the information on the relationship between the husband and wife was obtained. The overall rate of consanguinity shows that 57.7% of the families screened were consanguineous. The most frequent were first cousin marriages (28.4%) followed by distant relati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Genetics
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1468-6244
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.32.8.623