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Consanguinity and its relevance to clinical genetics

2013-01-30

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Consanguineous marriages have been practiced since the early existence of modern humans. Until now, consanguinity is widely practiced in several global communities with variable rates. The present study was undertaken to analyze the effect of consanguinity on different types of genetic diseases and child morbidity and mortality. Patients were grouped according to the types of genetic errors into four groups: Group...

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Literature Corpus work: f9365916-885d-58dd-9d4e-17c40aa81852
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmhg.2013.01.002

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