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Consanguinity and clefts in the craniofacial region: A retrospective case-control study

Journal of Cleft Lip Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies, 2015
Objective: The objective was to investigate the association between consanguinity and clefts in the craniofacial region. Materials and Methods: Sample consists of 179 non-syndromic cases of clefts in the craniofacial region and 200 healthy controls with ...
Betty Anna Jose, Subramani Arumugam Subramani, Varsha Mokhasi, Mini Jayan   +3 more
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Prevalence and Distribution of Dental Anomalies among Arab Orthodontic Patients in Israel: Is There a Correlation to Consanguinity Marriage?

Applied Sciences, 2022
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of dental anomalies and whethera significant association exists between dental anomalies and consanguinity marriage among Arabic orthodontic patients in Israel.
Rana Kadry, Rojee Atalla, Tatiana Sella Tunis, Tamar Finkelstein, Shirley Schonberger, Johnny Kharouba, Yehoshua Shapira   +6 more
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Parental Consanguinity and Risk for Childhood Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2023
Introduction: Genetic causes are responsible for half of the cases of hearing loss, most of them being the result of non-syndromic genetic changes resulting from autosomal recessive inheritance.
Bárbara Leal, Ana Cristina Lopes, Daniela Peixoto, Laura Correia, Maria Miguel Almiro, João Vilar, Maria Luísa Azevedo, Maria Adelaide Bicho   +7 more
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Association of cleft lip and/or palate in people born to consanguineous parents: A 13-year retrospective study from a very high-volume cleft center

Journal of Cleft Lip Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies, 2019
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the association of cleft lip (CL) and/or cleft palate (CP) in people born to consanguineous parents.
Praveen Kumar Neela, Srinivas Gosla Reddy, Akhter Husain, Vasavi Mohan   +3 more
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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, N.
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Consanguineous marriage in Oman: understanding the community awareness about congenital effects of and attitude towards consanguineous marriage

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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Consanguineous unions and endogamy in families of beta-thalassaemia patients from two Mediterranean populations: Tunisia and Italy

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, Monia Ouederni, Giovanbattista Ruffo, Monia Ben Khaled, Ridha Kouki, Caterine Di Girgenti, Zelia Borsellino, Irene Sammartano, Mohamed El Gazzah, Safia El- Bok, Mohamed Bejaoui   +10 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, Dr.Nafisa Fatima, Dr.Muhammad Shahroz Hamza, Dr.Shakil Ahmad, Dr.Iram Fayyaz, Dr.Huma Ashraf   +5 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, Néstor Simón Montiel-Urdaneta   +1 more
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Human knockouts and phenotypic analysis in a cohort with a high rate of consanguinity

Nature, 2017
A major goal of biomedicine is to understand the function of every gene in the human genome. Loss-of-function mutations can disrupt both copies of a given gene in humans and phenotypic analysis of such ‘human knockouts’ can provide insight into gene ...
D. Saleheen, P. Natarajan, Irina M. Armean, Wei Zhao, A. Rasheed, Sumeet A. Khetarpal, H. Won, K. Karczewski, A. O’Donnell-Luria, K. Samocha, B. Weisburd, N. Gupta, Mozzam Zaidi, M. Samuel, Atif Imran, S. Abbas, Faisal Majeed, M. Ishaq, S. Akhtar, K. Trindade, Megan L Mucksavage, N. Qamar, K. S. Zaman, Zia Yaqoob, T. Saghir, S. N. H. Rizvi, A. Memon, N. H. Mallick, M. Ishaq, S. Z. Rasheed, Fazal-ur-rehman Memon, Khalid Mahmood, Naveeduddin Ahmed, R. Do, R. Krauss, D. MacArthur, S. Gabriel, E. Lander, M. Daly, P. Frossard, J. Danesh, D. Rader, S. Kathiresan   +42 more
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