Consanguinity and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a case-control study

• Main Authors: Ameer Kakaje (Author), Mohammad Marwan Alhalabi (Author), Ayham Ghareeb (Author), Bahjat Karam (Author), Bassam Mansour (Author), Bayan Zahra (Author), Othman Hamdan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Consanguineous marriage is widely practised across the world. Its effect on acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is controversial as both parents share some of the genes which might increase the incidence of sharing recessive genes. However, other theories suggest that consanguini...