STUDY POPULATION. Two sets of kindreds were studied. The first set included a 4-year-old boy and a 10-year-old sister born from consanguineous Lebanese parents with phenotypes characterized by recurrent respiratory infections and chronic cryptosporidial gastrointestinal infection and associated chronic cholangitis, biliary fibrosis, and cirrhosis. A second unrelated set included an 8-yearold bo...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Consanguineous marriage is one of the causes of congenital deformities and genetic diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of consanguineous marriage in dentoalveolar deformities in 16-18 years old adolescents with parental consanguineous marriages in Kerman, Iran. METHODS: A total of 388 female and male adolescents participated in this study. The subjects w...

30 Abdulbari Bener1,2,3 1Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation 2Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar 3Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom 2 CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES AND THEIR EFFECT ON COMMON DISEASES IN...

background:   materials and methods:   results:   six cases (33.3%), followed by the mesiodens, five cases (27.8%). the canines and distomolars three cases (16.6%) each respectively, while the least were the lateral incisors and paramolars of the two cases (11.1%) each. conclusion:   population because 13 cases (72.2%) out of 18 cases had consanguineous parents, while all patients having consan...