The biraderi (brotherhood) is a long-established, widely prevalent dimension of social stratification in Pakistani communities worldwide. Alongside consanguinity, it offers a route for cementing social solidarities and so has strong socio-biological significance. A detailed breakdown of biraderi affiliation among participants in an ongoing birth cohort study in the northern English city of Brad...

The rarity of consanguineous marriage in much of the industrialized world, and the current restriction or outright prohibition of first-cousin unions in a majority of US states and in East Asian countries such as China, North and South Korea and the Philippines, has led many commentators to overlook the fact that the Out-of-Africa migration some 60,000–70,000 years ago had been undertaken by qu...

OBJECTIVE With 20-30% of all marriages occurring between first cousins, increasing attention in Jordan is now given to role of consanguinity in the occurrence of genetic diseases. The objective of this study is to define the specific categories of genetic disorders associated with consanguineous marriages. METHODS Etiological categories and consanguinity rates were studied among 623 families ...

The Larrakia terminology is a member of the very small class asymmetric terminologies in Australia, but it most poorly described. There are number documentary sources, and this paper considers principled bases for comparative evaluation sources order to produce well-founded description which can contribute theories kinship both Australia more generally. In terms general theory, reconstructed ra...

Many different types of genetic disorders are noted to be prevalent among consanguineous progeny. Although the most common type of consanguineous union in all major societies is between first cousins, the importance of customary influences is apparent from variations in the specific types of first-cousin marriages contracted. Epidemiological data for the prevalence of whistling-face syndrome (W...

Although a high proportion of marriages in Asia are consanguineous (i.e. contracted between close biological relatives), with some notable exceptions, there is a death of demographic and anthropological literature on the association between consanguinity and fertility. This paper presents an overview of the prevalence of consanguineous marriages in selected South and Southeast Asian countries, ...

getting married with relatives is considered as the salient kinds of marriage in iran and it is of a particular position in the culture of ordinary people. among the different kinds of marriage of relatives, the cousin marriage is of the most frequency.  the main question of the present research is linked to” the sort of the view point and behavioral status of iranian concerning the marriage of...

The rate of psychiatric morbidity and its sociodemographic correlates was estimated in 2000 women attending 3 primary care centres in Irbid, Jordan. Women completed standardized diagnostic tools that yielded psychiatric diagnoses, a stress scale and sociodemographic details. The rate of psychiatric morbidity was 26.3% and psychological distress 39.0%. A significant association was found between...