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The Economics Of Consanguineous Marriages [PDF]
Review 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
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Consanguineous Marriages in Pakistan [PDF]
The 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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Association between leukocytes telomere length and parental consanguineous marriage [PDF]
EXCLI Journal : Experimental and Clinical SciencesFatemeh Zahra Darvishi, Mostafa Saadat
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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 +4 more
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Parental consanguinity increases the risk of congenital malformations
Rehman 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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Arabian 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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مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2019 Background: The distinction of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) causes is important for the prevention and treatment. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between consanguineous marriage and hearing loss resulting cochlear implant ...
Seyed Hamidreza Abtahi +3 more
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Bengal 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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Consanguinity and isolated atrial septal defect in North East of Iran
Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2014 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The rate of consanguineous marriage is high in Middle Eastern countries such as Iran. The relationship between consanguineous marriage and congenital heart disease is discussed in some studies, but there is not much data for ...
Hasan Mottaghi Moghaddam Shahri +3 more
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Consanguineous Marriage [PDF]
Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2014 Background and objectives: Consanguineous marriage is a global health problem with several health-related and social adverse outcomes. The aim of this study was identifying the prevalence and epidemiologic features of consanguineous marriage. Material
Fariba Heidari, Saeid Dastgiri
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