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Blood Ties and Mental Health: The Effect of Consanguineous Marriageson Depression and Anxiety

Annals of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Karachi Medical & Dental College
Objective: To determine the prevalence of consanguineous and non-consanguineous marriages in two significant cognitive health conditions, severe depression and anxiety.
Meer Arsalan Khan Khan , Saif Ullah Shaikh, Hira Shaikh , Komal Saleem , Hafsa Riaz, Iram Saddiqa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association between consanguinity and survival of marriages

Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics, 2015
Background and purpose: The present study was performed to investigate the association between consanguineous marriages and divorce risk. Materials and methods: A total of 496 couples at divorce time and 800 couples from general population who have no ...
Mostafa Saadat
doaj   +1 more source

Homozygosity Mapping and Genetic Analysis of Autosomal Recessive Retinal Dystrophies in 144 Consanguineous Pakistani Families. [PDF]

, 2017
PurposeThe Pakistan Punjab population has been a rich source for identifying genes causing or contributing to autosomal recessive retinal degenerations (arRD).
Akram, Javed, Ayyagari, Radha, Cabrera, Patricia E, Chen, Jianjun, Chen, Yabin, Govindarajan, Gowthaman, Gupta, Nikhil, Hejtmancik, J Fielding, Huang, Li, Jiang, Dan, Jiao, Xiaodong, Jin, Chongfei, Khan, Shaheen N, Li, Jiali, Li, Lin, M'hamdi, Oussama, Ma, Xiaoyin, Ma, Yan, Ma, Zhiwei, Naeem, Muhammad Asif, Riazuddin, S Amer, Riazuddin, Sheikh, Sieving, Paul A, Sun, Wenmin, Tanwar, Mukesh   +24 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
wiley   +1 more source

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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The knowledge and the attitude of youth couples on/towards consanguineous marriages in the north of Iran [PDF]

, 2012
Aim: Consanguinity is an important risk factor in genetic diseases and in congenital malformations. This study was done to assess the knowledge and the attitude of youth couples on/towards consanguineous marriages in the north of Iran.
Golalipour, M.J., Keshtkar, A.A., Sedehi, M.   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

HOW FREQUENT ARE CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES?

Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences, 2008
Objective: To determine the frequency of consanguineous marriages in parents and grand parents of alladmitted children in a pediatric unit Design: An observational study.
D. S. Akram, Fehmina Arif, Jabeen Fayyaz Fayyaz   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Consanguinity in the Maltese Islands [PDF]

, 2015
Consanguineous marriages may increase the risk of some medical conditions and may be useful to examine social and other aspects. There were few such marriages in the Maltese islands until late in the 19th C when they increased until they began to decline
Wyatt, H.V.
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
wiley   +1 more source