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Statistical study of aca-talasemia, a review of thirty-eight cases appearing in the literatures [PDF]
, 1959 1. With a view to grasp more simply and clearly the characteristics of this disease and in order to find a clue for prompt discovery of cases when encountered in future, the authors undertook a statistical study of the cases already reported by various ...
Doi, Katsusaburo +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Locating ethnicity and health: exploring concepts and contexts [PDF]
, 2007 With the rapid development of ethnicity and health as a field of sociological research, this paper seeks to re-evaluate the development of ideas around ethnicity, 'race' and culture and consider how they have been applied to the question of health ...
Ahmad, Waqar I. U., Bradby, Hannah
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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 +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 +2 more
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Evidence-Based Nursing ResearchContext: 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 +3 more
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Evidence on developmental milestones in children with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) under the age of five is scarce. This multisite cross‐sectional study described developmental status and examined factors associated with milestone attainment in 143 children aged 0–66 months from a pediatric AMC Registry.
Ahlam Zidan +13 more
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Epidemiologic aspects of neural tube defects in South East Iran [PDF]
, 2006 Objectives: To investigate the rate of neural tube defects (NTDs) and their relation to gender, maternal age, consanguineous marriage, season, and drug consumption in Birjand, Iran.
Afshar, M., Farhud, D., Golalipour, M.J.
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Modelling the constraints on consanguineous marriage when fertility declines [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND Consanguinity - or marriage between close blood relatives, in particular first cousins - is widely practised and even socially encouraged in many countries.
Barakat, Bilal, Basten, Stuart
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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 +6 more
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