Consanguinity ("blood relation", from the Latin consanguinitas ) is the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that aspect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person. Consanguineous marriage is frequent in many populations. In fact, it has been recently estimated that consanguineous couples and their progeny suppose about 10....

Middle East Journal of Medical Genetics 2012, 1:1–4 Purpose Classical studies of consanguinity have taken advantage of the relationship between the gene frequency for a rare autosomal recessive disorder (q) and the proportion of offspring of consanguineous couples who are affected with the same disorder. The Swedish geneticist Gunnar Dahlberg provided the first theoretical formulation of the in...

Marriage is said to be consanguineous, when it is between persons descending from the common ancestor. Consanguineous marriages are widely contracted worldwide despite the devastating effects in children born to such couples. The aim of the study was to analyze the impact of consanguinity on hearing in babies born out of consanguineous marriages. It was a comparative study in 50 children aged b...

Marriages among the Sikh minority of the Districts of Swat, Bunair and Shangla (NWFP, Pakistan) were studied where the frequency of consanguineous marriages was found to be 21%. Marriages with distant relatives were 29.4% in the population. The inbreeding coefficient for the population was calculated to be 0.0127. Only three types of first cousin marriages (MSD, MBD and FSD) were recorded. Marr...

consanguineous marriages are traditionally favoured in most of asian and african countries especially in the muslim countries. however, it is apparent that these kinds of marriage are a major factor of some genetic disorders inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. although there is a long history of consanguineous marriage in iran, the information on its prevalence is too poor. the aim of ...

There is the impression that congenital malformations are more prevalent in populations with a high intermarriage rate, including Saudi Arabia. Although some studies have been reported from other parts of the country 1-6 or neighboring countries, none has specifically addressed the population of the Al-Hasa area in the Eastern Province, where consanguineous marriages are very common, nor specif...