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Study of Youths’ Knowledge, Behavior, and Attitude towards Consanguineous Marriages [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2006
Consanguineous marriages are traditionally favoured in most of Asian and African countries especially in the Muslim countries. However, it is apparent that these kinds of marriage are a major factor of some genetic disorders inherited in an autosomal ...
M Hasanzadeh-Nazarabadi, GH Rezaeetalab, F Dastfan   +2 more
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Familial accumulation of consanguineous marriages [PDF]

Japanese journal of human genetics, 1977
Distribution of consanguineous, marriages among spouses, husband's parents and wife's parents was analyzed based upon data on 20,563 families in six populations in Japan. There were highly significant correlations of presence or absence of consanguinity among the three couples in most populations.
K, Tanaka, M, Tanimura
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Consanguineous Marriages and Reproductive Behavior: A Study from Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra

National Journal of Community Medicine, 2022
Introduction: India has been subdivided in to two major regions with respect to a preference for or avoidance of consanguineous marriage. The deleterious health effects associated with consanguinity are caused by the expression of rare, recessive genes ...
Venkatramana K Sonkar, Uday W Narlawar, Ismail Ali F Inamdar, Mohan K Doibale   +3 more
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The decline in consanguineous marriage among Muslims in Israel: The role of education

Demographic Research, 2017
Background: There are two explanations for the inverse relationship between consanguinity and women's education. The female empowerment hypothesis posits that better-educated women will demand more freedom in choosing a marriage partner, whereas the role
Jona Schellekens, Guy Kenan, Ahmad Hleihel   +2 more
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Histidinaemia in a consanguineous marriage [PDF]

Journal 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, J, Guïzar, I, Alejandre, S, Benïtez, S, Armendares   +4 more
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Effect of Premarital Counseling Regarding Consanguineous Marriage on Nursing Student's Perception and Satisfaction

Evidence-Based Nursing Research
Context: Consanguineous marriage is a traditional habit in Arab countries leading to higher autosomal recessive genetic disorders.‎ Aim: To study the effect of premarital counseling regarding consanguineous ‎marriage on nursing students' perception ...
Nagia S. A. Ebid, Sahar M. Soliman, Kamilia R. Abo Shabana, Nevin S. Metwaly   +3 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Pathological Variants of Aminoacyl-tRNA-synthetase-Interacting Multifunctional Protein 1 Gene in an Iranian Consanguineous Family With Autosomal Recessive Intellectual Disability

The Journal of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, 2020
Background Intellectual disability (ID) is one of the most common neurodevelopment disorders that caused by both environment and genetic factors. Genetic diseases account for 50% of ID incidents and have important role in its development. One of the most
Sara Cheraghi, Sahar Moghbelinejad, Reza Najafipour   +2 more
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Education and Consanguineous Marriage [PDF]

SSRN 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, Naci
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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