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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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The association between consanguineous marriage and offspring with congenital hearing loss
Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2020 BACKGROUND: Consanguinity is a commonly recognized practice among marriages in the Middle East and may lead to an increase in the prevalence of inherited disorders. Autosomal recessive deafness is the most common form of inherited congenital hearing loss
Aljohara M. Almazroua +4 more
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Infant death and consanguineous marriage [PDF]
BMJ, 1994 EDITOR, - Perinatal mortality and infant mortality are important indicators of community health Consanguineous marriage increases the risk of having children with autosomal recessive disorders and may be a cause of perinatal and infant death that cannot be prevented.1,2 We recently compared perinatal and infant mortality in children with a Norwegian ...
K H, Orstavik, R, Lindemann, J, Steen
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Consanguineous marriage, prepregnancy maternal characteristics and stillbirth risk: A population-based case-control study [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction. Consanguineous marriage is associated with increased risks for congenital anomalies, low birthweight, and other adverse perinatal outcomes.
Aarabi, M. +7 more
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Evolutionary 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.
Ashley D. Hoben +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Recurrent miscarriages occur in about 5% of couples trying to conceive. In the past decade, the products of miscarriage have been studied using array comparative genomic hybridization (a-CGH).
Kimia Najafi +6 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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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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Effects of consanguinity in a cohort of subjects with certain genetic disorders in Qatar
Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2020 Background Consanguineous marriages are common in the Middle East including the Gulf countries. The rate of consanguinity in Qatar is approximately 54%, which are mainly first cousins’ marriages.
Tawfeg Ben‐Omran +6 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 +4 more
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