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Congenital Malformations and Consanguinity
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1986Summary: In this study in Bahrain increased maternal age, high parity, consanguinity and a history of 2 or more previous abortions were found to increase the risk of congenital malformation.
A, el-Shafei, P S, Rao, A K, Sandhu
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Consanguinity and mental retardation
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 1991ABSTRACT. Consanguinity among parents as a cause of mental retardation in their children is debatable. The present study was conducted to find out the effect of consanguinity on mental retardation where the causative factor is not established. A total of 517 mentally retarded persons and their families were studied out of which 160 were born of ...
T, Madhavan, J, Narayan
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Consanguinity and Schizophrenia in Sudan
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1979SummaryThe rate of first-cousin marriages among the parents of schizophrenics was compared with a control group in an isolated highly inbred Sudanese community, no significant difference being found.
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Genetic aspects of consanguinity
The American Journal of Medicine, 1963Abstract Consanguineous marriages increase the frequency of homozygotes AA and aa among their offspring by the same absolute amount, thus incurring no change in gene frequency. When recessives are originally rare in the population, this would mean a manyfold increase in the frequency of recessives among the inbred offspring.
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