The changing pattern of consanguinity in a selected region of the Israeli Arab community

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 72-77

  Sharkia, Rajach ^a,b   Zaid, Muhamad ^a   Athamna, Abed ^a   Cohen, Dani ^c   Azem, Abdussalam ^c   Zalan, Abdelnaser ^a  

^a Triangle Research and Development Center   (Israel)

^b BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; ISRAEL; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SOCIAL STATUS;

ARABS; CONSANGUINITY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 38049123680     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20678     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Abu-Rabia S, Maroun L. 2005. The effect of consanguineous marriage on reading disability in the Arab community. Dyslexia 11:1-21.
2. Alper OM, Erengin H, Manguoglu AE, Bilgen T, Cetin Z, Dedeoglu N, Luleci G. 2004. Consanguineous marriages in the province of Antalya, Turkey. Ann Genet 47:129-138.
3. Bittles AH. Consanguinity and its relevance to clinical genetics. 2001. Clin Genet 60:89-98.
4. Bromiker R, Glam-Baruch M, Gofin R, Hammerman C, Amitai Y. 2004. Association of parental consanguinity with congenital malformations among Arab newborns in Jerusalem. Clin Genet 66:63-66.
5. Central Bureau of Statistics, 2003, Israel, available from: (1) Available at: http://www1.cbs.gov.il/popisr/table1.pdf (2) Available at: http://www.cbs.gov.il/hodaot2002/13_02_48ta.xls
6. Cohen T, Vardi-Saliternik R, Friedlander Y. 2004. Consanguinity, intracommunity and intercommunity marriages in a population sample of Israeli Jews. Ann Hum Biol 31:38-48.
7. Fuster V, Colantonio SE. 2004. Socioeconomic, demographic, and geographic variables affecting the diverse degrees of consanguineous marriages in Spain. Hum Biol 76:1-14.
8. Hamamy H, Jamhawi L, Al-Darawsheh J, Ajlouni K. 2005. Consanguineous marriages in Jordan: why is the rate changing with time? Clin Genet 67:511-516.
9. Jaber L, Bailey-Wilson JE, Haj-Yehia M, Hernandez J, Shohat M. 1994. Consanguineous matings in an Israeli-Arab community. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 148:412-415.
10. Jaber L, Halpern GJ, Shohat M. 1998. The impact of consanguinity worldwide. Community Genet 1:12-17.
11. Jaber L, Halpern GJ, Shohat T. 2000. Trends in the frequencies of consanguineous marriages in the Israeli Arab community. Clin Genet 58:106-110.
12. Jaber L, Merlob P, Bu X, Rotter JI, Shobhat M. 1992. Marked parental consanguinity as a cause for increased major malformations in an Arab community. Am J Med Genet 44:1-6.
13. Jaber L, Shohat M, Halpern GJ. 1996. Demographic characteristics of the Israeli Arab community in connection with consanguinity. Isr J Med Sci 32:1286-1289.
14. Khlat M. 1988. Social correlates of consanguineous marriages in Beirut: a population-based study. Hum Biol 60:541-548.
15. Pedersen J. 2002. The influence of consanguineous marriage on infant and child mortality among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Community Genet 5:178-181.
16. Qidwai W, Sued IA, Khan FM. 2003. Prevalence and perceptions about consanguineous marriages among patients presenting to family physicians, in 2001 at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Asia Pac Fam Med 2:27-31.
17. Raz AE, Atar M. 2004. Cousin marriage and premarital carrier matching in a Bedouin community in Israel: attitudes, service development and educational intervention. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 30:49-51.
18. Schull WJ. 1958. Empirical risks in consanguineous marriage: Sex ratio, malformation and viability. Am J Hum Genet 10:294-343.
19. Vardi-Saliternik R, Friedlander Y, Cohen T. 2002. Consanguinity in a population sample of Israeli Muslim Arabs, Christian Arabs and Druze. Ann Hum Biol 29:422-431.
20. Varela TA, Ainsua RL, Farina J. 2003. Consanguinity in the Bishopric of Ourense (Galicia, Spain) from 1900 to 1997. Ann Hum Biol 30:419-433.
21. Zlotogora J. 1997. Genetic disorders among Palestinian Arabs: effects of consanguinity. Am J Med Genet 68:472-475.
22. Zlotogora J, Habiballah H, Odatallah A, Barges S. 2002. Changing family structure in a modernizing society: a study of marriage patterns in a single Muslim village in Israel. Am J Hum Biol 14:680-682.
23. Zlotogora J, Haklai Z, Rotem N, Georgi M, Berlovitz I, Leventhal A, Amitai Y. 2003. Relative prevalence of malformations at birth among different religious communities in Israel. Am J Med Genet 15:59-62.