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Consanguineous marriage in Jordan
American Journal of Medical Genetics, 1992AbstractWe conducted a population‐based study of consanguineous marriages in Jordan. About two thousand households were interviewed. First cousin marriages were encountered in 32.03%, second cousin in 6.8%, distant relation in 10.5%, and no relation in 50% of all marriages, respectively.
S A, Khoury, D, Massad
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Consanguineous Marriage among the Fulani
Human Biology, 2001The Fulani are a broad ethnic category of nomadic and seminomadic pastoralists and agropastoralists living in the semiarid Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Fulani are patrilineal, patrilocal, and moderately polygynous, with arranged first marriages accompanied by the payment of bridewealth, ideally in the form of cattle.
Hampshire, K. R., Smith, M. T.
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Consanguineous marriages and congenital anomalies
The Lancet, 2013Previous associations between consanguineous marriage and congenital anomalies have often been hampered by deficiencies in study design and small sample sizes...
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IS CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE HISTORICALLY ENCOURAGED?
Journal of Biosocial Science, 2008I read with great interest Akrami and Osati’s article entitled ‘Is consanguineous marriage religiously encouraged? Islamic and Iranian considerations’ published in the March 2007 issue of the Journal of Biosocial Science (Akrami & Osati, 2007). The authors showed that in many Islamic sources, there is no sign that could be described as encouraging ...
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NON‐RANDOMNESS IN CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE*
Annals of Human Genetics, 1955SummaryFor Japanese, English, Brazilian and Austrian populations, estimates of genetic isolate size based on different types of consanguineous marriage range over more than one order of magnitude, being much greater for uncle‐niece and aunt‐nephew marriage than for first‐cousin marriage, with second cousins giving estimates about 10 times greater than ...
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Consanguineous Marriage in Pali Literature
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1973Instances of cross-cousin marriage in Pali literature are found only in the post-canonical stratum and are unsupported or in some cases contradicted by non-Pali versions of the same stories. They reflect, therefore, the kinship practices of early Ceylon, not North India.
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