@ARTICLE{Pour-Jafari, author = {Pour-Jafari, Hamid and Anvari, Nahid and }, title = {Frequency and Patterns of Consanguinity Marriages in Hamadan }, volume = {7}, number = {3}, abstract ={In a cross-sectional study, the frequency and types of consanguinity marriages in Hamadan city were determined in 1996. In this study the randomly selected couples were interviewed. 245 cases (23.07%)of 1062 were consanguinous. The most frequent type of consanguinity marriage was the first cousins (58.37%). Present paper also will submit frequencies of different types of consanguinity marriages in Hamadan and will compare the results with others. Results have shown that tendency to consanguiniy marriage is related to the kind of job and level of knowledge. Also congenital malformations were more frequent among progenies of parents with consanguinity marriages. }, URL = {http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-923-en.html}, eprint = {http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-923-en.}, journal = {Avicenna Journal of Clinical Medicine}, doi = {}, year = {2000} }