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Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
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Hearing Impairments in Consanguineous Marriage

Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2004
Consanguineous marriage is strongly favored in many large human populations. In the most parts of south Asia, consanguineous marriage account for 20%  to over 50% of the general population. The effect of consanguinity on hereditary deafness has been
Younes Lotfi, Saeideh Mehrkian
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Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Factors Predisposing To Cleft Lip and Palate in Children Presenting in a Tertiary Care Hospital [PDF]

Journal of Sharif Medical & Dental College, 2018
Objective: To determine the predisposing risk factors of cleft lip and palate among children presenting in a tertiary care hospital. Methodology: It was a case-control study conducted at the Children Hospital & Institute of Child Health, Lahore for a ...
Areeja Fatima, Asad Zain, Muhammad Tauseef Javed, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal   +3 more
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Exaggerated blood pressure reactivity in the offspring of first-cousin hypertensive parents

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2001
Objective: To study blood pressure and blood pressure reactivity in young offspring of normotensive or hypertensive parents who are consanguineous (first cousins) or are not blood-related. Method: Blood pressure, heart rate and body mass index (BMI) were
Amal M Ziada, Waheed Al Kharusi, Mohammed O Hassan   +2 more
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Community awareness of genetic disorders associated with consanguineous marriage and acceptance of preventive screening, a cross-sectional study from Saudi Arabia

Frontiers in Genetics
BackgroundThis study assessed community awareness, knowledge, and attitudes toward genetic disorders associated with consanguineous marriage and evaluated acceptance of premarital/genetic screening among adults in Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia.MethodsA ...
Abdulmajeed A. A. Sindi, Uthman Albakri, Sarah A. Alzahrani, Haneen M. Alqarni, Rimiyyah K. Alzahrani, Batol M. Albanghali, Mohammed A. Shanawaz, Basim A. Othman, Dhuha F. Alghamdi, Aryam A. Alghamdi, Ali Mahzari, Dina Marghani, Mohammad A. Albanghali   +12 more
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Blepharophimosis, ptosis, epicanthus inversus syndrome type 2 with red hair, lymphedema of lower limbs and kidney stones in an Egyptian patient

Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics, 2015
We report the case of a 2 month old male, 6th in order of birth of 1st cousin consanguineous marriage with the typical features of blepharophimosis, ptosis, epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES) including bilateral shortening of the horizontal and vertical
Rabah M. Shawky, Radwa Gamal, Neveen S. Seifeldin   +2 more
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Class Ruptures and Openings: The Role of Social and Family History in Narratives on Class Mobility and Reproduction

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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