The costs of human inbreeding and their implications for variations at the DNA level

AH Bittles, JV Neel - Nature genetics, 1994 - nature.com
An analysis of the world literature on the children of first cousin marriages reveals that the
depression of survival in offspring followed from birth (including late miscarriages; at about …

Does inbreeding lead to decreased human fertility?

AH Bittles, JC Grant, SG Sullivan… - Annals of human …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
In most Western countries there is a widespread belief, fostered in part by historical
prejudice and religious proscription, that inbreeding in human populations causes a …

[BOOK][B] Consanguinity in context

AH Bittles - 2012 - books.google.com
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Prevalence of β-thalassemic patients associated with consanguinity and anti-HCV-antibody positivity–a cross sectional study

LA Qurat-ul-Ain, M Hassan, SM Rana, F Jabeen - Pak J Zool, 2011 - zsp.com.pk
A cross sectional study was carried out at various hospitals of Faisalabad city. The aim of
current study was to investigate the prevalence of β-thalassemia disease in hospital …

Assessment of association between consanguinity and fertility in Asian populations

R Hussain, AH Bittles - Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2004 - JSTOR
Although a high proportion of marriages in Asia are consanguineous (ie contracted between
close biological relatives), with some notable exceptions, there is a dearth of demographic …

Consanguinity related prenatal and postnatal mortality of the populations of seven Pakistani Punjab cities.

SA Shami, LH Schmitt, AH Bittles - Journal of medical genetics, 1989 - jmg.bmj.com
A retrospective study was conducted on prenatal and postnatal mortality among the
populations of seven cities in the Pakistani province of Punjab. Consanguineous marriages …

Consanguinity, spousal age at marriage and fertility in seven Pakistani Punjab cities

SA Shami, LH Schmitt, AH Bittles - Annals of human biology, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
A retrospective study was conducted on spousal age at marriage, time to first birth and total
pregnancies in the populations of seven cities in the Pakistani province of Punjab …

[BOOK][B] Empirical Estimates of the Global Prevalence of Consangineous Marriage in Contemporary Societies

AH Bittles - 1998 - researchportal.murdoch.edu.au
Empirical estimates of the global prevalence of consanguineous marriage in contemporary
societies Page 1 Please do not remove this page Empirical estimates of the global …

Marriage patterns in Sri Lanka and the prevalence of parental consanguinity in patients with β-thalassaemia: a cross-sectional descriptive analysis

AP Premawardhena, ST De Silva… - Journal of Biosocial …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Consanguineous marriages potentially play an important role in the transmission of β-
thalassaemia in many communities. This study aimed to determine the rate and socio …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of Consanguinity, Environment, Socio-Economic and Other Risk Factors on Epidemiology of Leukemia.

M Nasir, F Jabeen, SM Hussain, T Shaheen… - Pakistan Journal of …, 2015 - zsp.com.pk
The study was aimed to investigate the occurrence and prevalence of leukemia in a hospital
population and the impact of consanguinity, surname, birth order, blood group, family …