Consanguineous unions and child health in the State of Qatar

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 372-378

  Bener, Abdulbari ^a,b,d   Hussain, Rafat ^c  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Asthma; Child morbidity; Consanguinity; Diabetes; Epilepsy; Fertility; Genetics; Mental retardation

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLINDNESS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONSANGUINITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; QATAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CONSANGUINITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GRAVIDITY; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; QATAR; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 33747343521     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2006.00750.x     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Mokhtar MM, Abdel-Fattah MM. Consanguinity and advanced maternal age as risk factors for reproductive losses in Alexandria, Egypt. European Journal of Epidemiology 2001; 17:559-565.
2. El-Hazmi MAF, Al-Swailem AR, Warsy AS, Al-Swailem AM, Sulaimani R, Al-Meshari AA. Consanguinity among Saudi Arabian population. Journal of Medical Genetics 1995; 32:623-626.
3. Sueyoshi S, Ohtsuka R. Effects of polygyny and consanguinity on high fertility in the rural Arab population in South Jordan. Journal of Biosocial Science 2003; 35:513-526.
4. Bener A, Abdulrazzaq MY, Al-Gazali LI, Micallef R, Al-Khayat AI, Gaber T. Consanguinity and associated sociodemographic factors in the United Arab Emirates. Human Heredity 1996; 46:256-264.
5. Abdulrazzaq YM, Bener A, Al-Ghazali LI, Al-Khayat AI, Micallef R, Gaber T. A study of possible deleterious effects of consanguinity. Clinical Genetics 1997; 51:167-173.
6. Gunaid AA, Hummad NA, Tamim KA. Consanguineous marriage in the capital city Sana'a, Yemen. Journal of Biosocial Science 2004; 36:111-121.
7. Al-Awadi SA, Naguib KK, Moussa MA, Farag TI, Teebi AS, El-Khalifa MY. The effect of consanguineous marriages on reproductive wastage. Clinical Genetics 1986; 29:384-388.
8. Rajab A, Patton MA. A study of consanguinity in the Sultanate of Oman. Annals of Human Biology 2000; 27:321-326.
9. Bittles AH, Grant J, Sullivan SG, Hussain R. Does inbreeding lead to decreased human fertility? Annals of Human Biology 2002; 29:111-130.
10. Sallam SA, Mahfouz AA, Dabbous NI. Reproductive health of married adolescent women in squatter areas in Alexandria, Egypt. East Mediterranean Health Journal 2001; 7:935-942.
11. Tamim H, Khogali M, Beydoun H, Melki I, Yunis K and the National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network. Consanguinity and apnea of prematurity. American Journal of Epidemiology 2003; 158:942-946.
12. Hussain R. The role of consanguinity and inbreeding as determinant of spontaneous abortion in Karachi, Pakistan. Annals of Human Genetics 1998; 62:147-157.
13. Hussain R. The role of consanguinity and inbreeding in perinatal mortality in Karachi, Pakistan. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 1998; 12:114-127.
14. Hussain R. Community perceptions of reasons for preference for consanguineous marriages in Pakistan. Journal of Biosocial Science 1999; 31:449-461.
15. Hussain R, Bittles AH, Sullivan S. Early childhood mortality in Muslim populations of India and Pakistan. American Journal of Human Biology 2001; 13:177-187.
16. Bittles AH. Consanguineous marriage and childhood health. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2003; 45:571-576.
17. Jaber L, Merlob P, Bu X, Rotter JI, Shohat M. Marked parental consanguinity as a cause for increased major malformations in an Israeli Arab community. American Journal of Medical Genetics 1992; 44:1-6.
18. Al-Ghazali LI, Dawodu AH, Sabarinathan K, Varghese M. The profile of major congenital abnormalities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) population. Journal of Medical Genetics 1995; 32:7-13.
19. Durkin MS, Hassan ZM, Hasan KZ. Prevalence and correlates of mental retardation among children in Karachi. Pakistan. American Journal of Epidemiology 1998; 147:281-288.
20. Norusis MJ. SPSS/PC+ for Windows, Base System and Advanced Statistic User's Guide, Windows Version 11.0. Chicago, IL: SPSS Inc., 1998.
21. Alper OM, Erengin H, Manguoglu AE, Bilgen T, Cetin Z, Dedeoglu N, et al. Consanguineous marriages in the province of Antalya, Turkey. Annals of Genetics 2004; 47:129-138.
22. Saadat M, Ansari-Lari M, Farhud DD. Consanguineous marriage in Iran. Annals of Human Biology 2004; 31:263-269.
23. Hussain R, Bittles AH. The prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of consanguineous marriages in Pakistan. Journal of Biosocial Science 1998; 30:261-275.
24. Bittles AH, Hussain R. An analysis of consanguineous marriage in the Muslim population of India at regional and state levels. Annals of Human Biology 2000; 27:163-171.
25. Ben Arab S, Masmoudi S, Beltaief N, Hachicha S, Ayadi H. Consanguinity and endogamy in Northern Tunisia and its impact on non-syndromic deafness. Genetic Epidemiology 2004; 27:74-79.
26. Hussain R, Bittles AH. Assessment of the association between consanguinity and fertility in Asian populations. Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition 2004; 22:1-12.
27. Al-Ansari A. Etiology of mild mental retardation among Bahraini children: a community-based case control study. Mental Retardation 1993; 31:140-143.
28. Al-Gazali LI. A genetic aetiological survey of severe childhood deafness in the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1998; 44:157-160.
29. Derekoy FS. Etiology of deafness in Afyon school for the deaf in Turkey. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 2000; 55:125-131.
30. Becker SM, Al Halees Z, Molina C, Paterson RM. Consanguinity and congenital heart disease in Saudi Arabia. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2001; 99:8-13.
31. Bromiker R, Glam-Baruch M, Gofin R, Hammerman C, Amitai Y. Association of parental consanguinity with congenital malformations among Arab newborns in Jerusalem. Clinical Genetics 2004; 66:63-66.
32. Jain VK, Nalini P, Chandia R, Srinivasan S. Congenital malformations, reproductive wastage and consanguineous mating. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1993; 33:33-36.
33. Stoltenberg C, Magnus P, Lie RT, Daltveit AK, Irgens LM. Birth defects and parental consanguinity in Norway. American Journal of Epidemiology 1997; 145:439-448.
34. Temtamy SA, Kandil MR, Demerdash AM, Hassan WA, Meguid NA, Afifi HH. An epidemiological/genetic study of mental subnormality in Assiut Governorate. Egypt Clinical Genetics 1994; 46:347-351.
35. Fernell E. Aetiological factors and prevalence of severe mental retardation in children in a Swedish municipality: the possible role of consanguinity. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 1998; 40:608-611.
36. Durkin MS, Khan NZ, Davidson LL, Huq S, Munir S, Rasul E, et al. Prenatal and postnatal risk factors for mental retardation among children in Bangladesh. American Journal of Epidemiology 2000; 52:1024-1333.
37. Devereux G, Stellitano L, Verity CM, Nicoll A, Will RG, Rogers P. Variations in neurodegenerative disease across the UK. findings from the national study of Progressive Intellectual and Neurological Deterioration (PIND). Archives of Disease in Childhood 2004; 89:8-12.
38. Bener A, Denic S, Al-Mazroui M. Consanguinity rate and case control study of family history of cancer in children with leukemia and lymphomas. Cancer 2001; 92:1-6.
39. Hijazi Z, Haider MZ. Influence of consanguinity and IgE receptor genotypes on clinical manifestations of asthma in Kuwaiti children. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 2001; 47:13-16.
40. Bodansky HJ, Staines A, Stephenson C, Haigh D, Cartwright R. Evidence for an environmental effect in the aetiology of insulin dependent diabetes in a transmigratory population. British Medical Journal 1992; 304:1020-1022.
41. Staines A, Hanif S, Ahmed S, McKinney PA, Shera S, Bodansky HJ. Incidence of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in Karachi, Pakistan. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1997; 76:121-123.