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Bombay blood group: Is prevalence decreasing with urbanization and the decreasing rate of consanguineous marriage

open access: yesAsian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2015
Context: Bombay blood group although rare is found to be more prevalent in the Western and Southern states of India, believed to be associated with consanguineous marriage.
Sujata Mallick   +3 more
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Hearing Impairments in Consanguineous Marriage

open access: greenIranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2004
Consanguineous marriage is strongly favored in many large human populations. In the most parts of south Asia, consanguineous marriage account for 20%  to over 50% of the general population. The effect of consanguinity on hereditary deafness has been
Younes Lotfi, Saeideh Mehrkian
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Association between leukocytes telomere length and parental consanguineous marriage [PDF]

open access: yesEXCLI Journal : Experimental and Clinical Sciences
Fatemeh Zahra Darvishi, Mostafa Saadat
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Consanguineous marriage and its relevance to divorce, polygyny and survival of marriage: evidence from a population-based analysis in Jordan

open access: yesAnnals of Human Biology, 2021
Background Consanguinity has been extensively studied in the context of its negative health outcomes for offspring and socio-demographic factors, but little evidence-based research has been done on its potential social benefits.
M. Mazharul Islam
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Consanguineous Marriages in Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yesThe Pakistan Development Review, 1994
In societies where marriage is nearly universal, and the fertility process is almost entirely through marital union, the factors associated with the occurrence of marriage, and through it the reproduction and rearing of children, need to be continuously assessed.
Mohammad Afzal   +2 more
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Frequency of W24X Gene Polymorphism among the Students from Hearing Impaired Schools of Shimoga District

open access: yesBengal Journal of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery, 2021
Introduction An important accompaniment of Non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss is family history and consanguinity. One of the widely studied single nucleotide polymorphism is the gap junction protein beta-2 (GJB2) gene which encodes the protein ...
Gangadhara KS, Geetha Bhaktha, Manjula B
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Parental consanguinity increases the risk of congenital malformations

open access: yesRehman Journal of Health Sciences, 2021
Introduction: Congenital malformation is a physical or structural abnormality present either prenatally or after birth. These anomalies are either primary or secondary malformation.
Maheen Gul   +4 more
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Consanguineous Marriage and its Relationship with Sociocultural Variables in Urban and Bedouin Geographical Regions in Kuwait

open access: yesArabian Humanities, 2019
Consanguineous marriage is a common type of marriage in the Middle East. Arab countries have the highest consanguineous marriage rates in the world. The differences in the prevalence of consanguineous marriage is related to differences in each geographic
Yagoub Y. Al‑Kandari   +1 more
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