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Endogamy and suicide: An observation-based hypothesis
Medical Hypotheses, 2015Suicide is a complex and multifactorial behavior, which is likely the result of distinct pathways in different individuals or groups. Endogamy has been associated with numerous diseases, including behavioral disorders. Here, we discuss the hypothesis of endogamy as one mechanism facilitating high rates of suicide in some small and isolated groups of ...
F, Jollant, C, Macdonald
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Endogamy, consanguinity and community genetics
Journal of Genetics, 2002The population of India is composed of many thousands of subpopulations, divided by geography, language, religion and caste or biraderi (patrilineage) boundaries, with endogamous marriage the norm. The net effect has been the creation of multiple genetic isolates with individual mutation profiles, but to date the clinical consequences of this highly ...
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Research endogamy as an indicator of conference quality
ACM SIGMOD Record, 2013Endogamy in scientific publications is a measure of the degree of collaboration between researchers. In this paper, we analyze the endogamy of a large set of computer science conferences and journals. We observe a strong correlation between the quality of those conferences and the endogamy of their authors: conferences where researchers collaborate ...
Sergio Lopez Montolio +2 more
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Endogamy among the Dogon of Boni, Mali
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1990SummaryThis paper examines factors influencing endogamy in a Dogon population in Mali. Situated in Boni district, this population of about 5000 individuals is distributed over fifteen villages located on four independent massifs. This population is strongly endogamous (only 4% of all marriages are contracted with neighbouring ethnic groups), and each ...
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Caste and Endogamy in Trinidad
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1964O NE OF THE MORE RECENT TRENDS among anthropologists concerned with East Indian culture has been to suggest reductionary explanations of caste. Accordingly, caste is explained by isolating a single factor as the most basic for the existence of this institution. Berreman, for example, contends that endogamy is the crucial factor of caste: ". . . a caste
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[Endogamy and consanguinity in Mauritania].
La Tunisie medicale, 2005We examined the types of marriage between husband and wife and their frequency as well as the intensity of consanguinity for the Mauritanian ethnic groups. Then we evaluated for all the population, the variations of each of these dimensions according to the dates of marriage.
Abdelmajid, Hammami +3 more
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Endogamy, exogamy, and stature
Eugenics Quarterly, 1968V, Ferák, Z, Lichardová, V, Bojnová
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Academic endogamy or immobility? The impact on scholarly productivity in a developing country
International Journal of Educational Development, 2022Luis Filipe de Miranda Grochocki +1 more
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