We conducted a population-based study of consanguineous marriages in Jordan. About two thousand households were interviewed. First cousin marriages were encountered in 32.03%, second cousin in 6.8%, distant relation in 10.5%, and no relation in 50% of all marriages, respectively. Inbreeding coeffici
Chylous ascites in sibs from a consanguineous marriage
✍ Scribed by Flores, Samuel ;Leungas, Javier ;Arredondo-Vega, F. ;Guízar-Vázquez, J. ;Optiz, John M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 204 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We report a brother and a sister with congenital chylous ascites. Parents were first cousins, and autosomal recessive inheritance may be the cause of the condition in these sibs.
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