Prevalence of consanguineous marriage among parents of deaf and normal children in Ardabil, North Western Iran

Background and Aim: Having healthy non-handicapped children plays a major role in mental health of the family and decreases family and society’s costs. While consanguineous marriage could lead to expression of recessive genes and a variety of handicaps including deafness, the aim of present study w...

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Main Authors: Shahrooz Nemati, Gholam Ali Afrooz, Ali Asgari, Bagher Ghobari Bonab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2017-07-01
Series:Auditory and Vestibular Research
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Online Access:https://avr.tums.ac.ir/index.php/avr/article/view/466