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Contribution of Marital Distance to Community Inbreeding, Homozygosis, and Reproductive Wastage for Recessively Inherited Genetic Disorders in Madhya Pradesh, India
BACKGROUND: Recessively inherited genetic disorders such as sickle cell anemia and β-thalassemia are commonly encountered in heterozygous and homozygous form in India. These hemolytic disorders cause a high degree of reproductive wastage in vulnerable communities. Inbreeding is usually the mating be...
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867230/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363878 http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2013.063 |