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Annals of Human Biology, 2017 Background: Although consanguinity is widely practiced in Oman, the attitude of community towards consanguinity and the awareness of its health consequences to offspring remain largely unexplored.
M. Mazharul Islam
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Consanguinity and rare mutations outside of MCCC genes underlie nonspecific phenotypes of MCCD. [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency (MCCD) is an autosomal recessive disorder of leucine catabolism that has a highly variable clinical phenotype, ranging from acute metabolic acidosis to nonspecific symptoms such as developmental delay ...
Barshop, Bruce A +6 more
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Annals of Human Biology, 2019 Background: Consanguinity increases the incidence of recessive diseases such as beta-thalassaemia major (βTM), one of the most prevalent lethal inherited diseases in the world.
Ramla Weslati +10 more
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Translational Research in Anatomy, 2018 Consanguinity has received a great deal of attention as a potential risk factor of many adverse health outcomes. Consanguineous marriage is still widespread in the Middle East.
Saied K.M. Belal +3 more
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Impact of consanguinity marriage on developing type 1 diabetes of beta thalassemia children
Journal of Aziz Fatimah Medical and Dental College, 2021 Objective: To find impact of consanguinity marriage on developing diabetes in a group of thalassemia children. Methodology: A cross sectional study carried out from October 2016 to June 2017at thalassemia centers of Lahore city. One hundred and fifty
Dr. Rukhshan Khurshid +5 more
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Effect of consanguinity on birth weight for gestational age in a developing country. [PDF]
, 2007 Consanguinity, the marriage between relatives, has been associated with adverse child health outcomes because it increases homozygosity of recessive alleles.
Kanaan, Mona +7 more
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Percentage of consanguinity in Murrah buffalos in the Zulia state of Venezuela
Revista Científica, 2023 Consanguinity (F) is the product of mating between animals that have one or more ancestors in common. Increased F can have positive effects but has many adverse effects, such as decreased fertility, increased embryonic losses and fetal death, decreased ...
José Raúl Pérez-González +1 more
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The impact of consanguinity on the frequency of inborn errors of metabolism
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports, 2018 Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) are a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders present in all ethnic groups. We investigated the frequency of consanguinity among parents of newborns with IEM diagnosed by neonatal screening.Data were obtained from ...
Raja Majid Afzal +2 more
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Global Pediatric Health, 2022 A newborn of unknown gestational age and unknown chronological age was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit after presenting to the emergency department for evaluation and concern for neglect.
Carla Brown MD +4 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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