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The Effect of Consanguineous Marriage on Mental Health among the Students of the Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Clin Diagn Res, 2016
Introduction: In Iran, after unintentional accidents, mental health problems are the second leading burden of disease. Consanguineous marriage is very common in Iran and the association between parental consanguinity and mental health is an important ...
Hosseinpour M   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +2 more sources

On the Adaptive Origins and Maladaptive Consequences of Human Inbreeding: Parasite Prevalence, Immune Functioning, and Consanguineous Marriage

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2010
We propose that consanguineous marriages arise adaptively in response to high parasite prevalence and function to maintain coadapted gene complexes and associated local adaptation that defend against local pathogens.
Abraham P Buunk   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Education and Consanguineous Marriage [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for the offspring and constitutes an economic problem with its associated medical ...
Akyol, Pelin, Mocan, N.
openaire   +3 more sources

The Economics Of Consanguineous Marriages [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Economics and Statistics, 2006
This paper provides an economic rationale for the practice of consanguineous marriages observed in parts of the developing world. In a model of incomplete marriage markets, dowries are viewed as ex ante transfers made from the bride's family to the groom's family when the promise of ex post gifts and bequests is not credible. Consanguineous unions join
Quy-Toan Do, Sriya Iyer, Shareen Joshi
openaire   +5 more sources

Association between leukocytes telomere length and parental consanguineous marriage [PDF]

open access: yesEXCLI Journal : Experimental and Clinical Sciences
Fatemeh Zahra Darvishi, Mostafa Saadat
doaj   +2 more sources

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
openaire   +2 more sources

Histidinaemia in a consanguineous marriage [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Genetics, 1974
Support to the autosomal recessive inheritance for histidinaemia is given by the finding of an affected product from a first-cousin marriage. The histidine loading test done on the parents confirms previous reports that female heterozygous metabolize the amino acid at a slower rate than male heterozygous.
I, Rostenberg   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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