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. 1985 May;27(5):483-6.
doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1985.tb00236.x.

Consanguinity among the Kuwaiti population

S A Al-Awadi, M A Moussa, K K Naguib, T I Farag, A S Teebi, M el-Khalifa, L el-Dossary

Consanguinity among the Kuwaiti population

S A Al-Awadi et al. Clin Genet. 1985 May.

Abstract

A total of 5,007 Kuwaitis were ascertained to study the incidence of consanguineous marriages during 1983. The rate of consanguineous mating was found to be 54.3% with estimated population incidence rates 52.9 to 55.7%. First cousin marriages were the most frequent type. The average inbreeding coefficient was 0.0219 which could be considered high.

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