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Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa: COL7A1 Mutation Landscape in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort of 152 Extended Families with High Degree of Customary Consanguineous Marriages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is a heritable skin disease manifesting with sub-lamina densa blistering, erosions, and chronic ulcers. COL7A1, encoding type VII collagen, has been identified as the candidate gene for dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. In
Abiri, Maryam   +11 more
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Consanguineous Marriage and its Relationship with Sociocultural Variables in Urban and Bedouin Geographical Regions in Kuwait

open access: yesArabian Humanities, 2019
Consanguineous marriage is a common type of marriage in the Middle East. Arab countries have the highest consanguineous marriage rates in the world. The differences in the prevalence of consanguineous marriage is related to differences in each geographic
Yagoub Y. Al‑Kandari   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Att söka kungligt tillstånd för giftermål: äktenskapsansökningar från besläktade personer under svenskt 1700-tal

open access: yesSjuttonhundratal, 2014
To Ask for the King’s Permission to Marriage: Applications for Marriage between Relatives in Eighteenth Century Sweden. In early modern Western society regulations against incestuous relationships were primarily justified by religion, and kinship by ...
Bonnie Clementsson
doaj   +1 more source

Sňatky Přemyslovců aneb Jak si vybírali ženichy a nevěsty [PDF]

open access: yesHistoricka Sociologie, 2013
Premysliden ruled over the Czech countries (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) more than three hundred years (ca. 930–1306). They cooperated with the ruling houses of the neighboring states (Hungary, Poland, Saxony, Bavaria, Austria etc.) as their political ...
Josef Kandert
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Oral–Facial–Digital Syndrome type VI with self mutilations

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics, 2014
We report the case of a 2.5 year old female, 2nd in order of birth of 1st cousin consanguineous marriage, with the typical features of Oral–Facial–Digital Syndrome type VI (OFDS VI) including midline pseudo cleft upper lip, sublingual nodule, molar tooth
Rabah M. Shawky   +4 more
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Leatherworkers and Love Potions [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
This is a preprint (author's original) version of the article published in American Ethnologist 8(3):512-25. The final version of the article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1981.8.3.02a00060 (BU login required to view full text).
Lindholm, Charles
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Attitudes Towards Cousin Marriages: Findings Among Young People from Mexico [PDF]

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychological Science, 2020
AbstractThe present research examined how life history and resistance against interethnic mating were related to positive and negative attitudes towards cousin marriages among young people aged between 15 and 25 from a rural area in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Buunk, A.P., Massar, K.
openaire   +3 more sources

THE CHANGING PROFILE OF CONSANGUINITY RATES IN BAHRAIN, 1990-2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Consanguineous marriage is traditional and respected in most communities of North Africa, the Middle East and West Asia, including Bahrain, with intra-familial unions accounting for 20-50+% of all marriages.
AL-ARRAYED, SHAIKHA, HAMAMY, HANAN
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Severity of effect considerations regarding the use of mutation as a toxicological endpoint for risk assessment: A report from the 8th International Workshop on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT)

open access: yesEnvironmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, EarlyView.
Abstract Exposure levels without appreciable human health risk may be determined by dividing a point of departure on a dose–response curve (e.g., benchmark dose) by a composite adjustment factor (AF). An “effect severity” AF (ESAF) is employed in some regulatory contexts.
Barbara L. Parsons   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

The value question in India: Ethnographic reflections on an ongoing debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The terms of the debate about anthropological approaches to the value question in India have been set by Dumont, whose theories were based on his ethnographic studies in North and South India, his knowledge of the Sanskrit literature, his synthesis of ...
Gregory, Chris
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