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Consanguinity in Context
An essential guide to this major contemporary issue, Consanguinity in Context is a uniquely comprehensive account of intra-familial marriage. Detailed information on past and present religious, social and legal practices and prohibitions is presented as a backdrop to the preferences and beliefs of the 1100+ million people in consanguineous unions. Chapters on population genetics, and the role of consanguinity in reproductive behaviour and genetic variation, set the scene for critical analyses of the influence of consanguinity on health in the early years of life. The discussion on consanguinity and disorders of adulthood is the first review of its kind and is particularly relevant given the ageing of the global population. Incest is treated as a separate issue, with historical and present-day examples examined. The final three chapters deal in detail with practical issues, including genetic testing, education and counselling, national and international legislation and imperatives, and the future of consanguineous marriage worldwide.
Consanguinity - Its Impact, Consequences and Management
Consanguineous marriages have been practiced for hundreds of years, predominantly by Moslems. Although it is generally accepted among communities that the social advantages outweigh other, the rate of congenital malformations and genetic diseases among the offspring borne of consanguineous marriages is higher and an increase in sterility, rates of abortions, stillbirths and neonatal deaths has been suggested by some researchers. These problems result in a substantial economic burden within the communities involved in the practice. Strategies for reducing the frequency of consanguineous marriages include expansion of educational programs, promotion of genetic testing services, and research to...
Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population" by George B. Louis Arner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Consanguinity, Inbreeding, and Genetic Drift in Italy (MPB-39)
In 1951, the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was teaching in Parma when a student--a priest named Antonio Moroni--told him about rich church records of demography and marriages between relatives. After convincing the Church to open its records, Cavalli-Sforza, Moroni, and Gianna Zei embarked on a landmark study that would last fifty years and cover all of Italy. This book assembles and analyzes the team's research for the first time. Using blood testing as well as church records, the team investigated the frequency of consanguineous marriages and its use for estimating inbreeding and studying the relations between inbreeding and drift. They tested the importance of random genetic drift ...
Consanguinity in Context
An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations.
Consanguinity and Genomics
When researching the genetics of consanguineous marriages, the medical and scientific community continues to pay attention mainly to rare autosomal recessive diseases. But from an overall population and health perspective, consanguinity is a much more extensive and complex topic that is influenced by major social, economic, and demographic factors. Genome analysis is, however, the principal unifying theme in this special topic issue since next-generation sequencing has become increasingly indispensable for profiling populations and diagnosing diseases, and thus is central to investigations into the biological and health outcomes arising as a consequence of consanguinity. With some 1.1 billion people living in countries, mainly in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and West, Central and South Asia, where 20-50% of marriages are between close kin, consanguinity is a topic of major contemporary significance. Written by experts in the field, this thematically diverse collection of papers provides new and exciting insights into the rationale for and outcomes of consanguineous marriage.
