official journal of Congeital Anomalies Research Association of Japan
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Syndromology of Congenital Anomalies
Tadashi KAJII
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1981 Volume 21 Issue 4 Pages 435-439

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The advantages and disadvantages of studying congenital anomalies in thc Japanese are discussed. The advantages include: 1) the genetically homogenous, large population of Japan; 2) the high consanguinity rate in the Japanese (although it is rapidly decreasing); 3) the uniform, hair, eye and skin color that makes it easy to detect diseases with pigmentation anomalies ; and 4) the gene pool of the Japanese considerably different from that of whites.

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© 1981 The Japanese Teratology Society
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