ENDOGAMY, CONSANGUINITY AND THE HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF CHANGING MARITAL CHOICES IN THE UK PAKISTANI COMMUNITY
| Autor: | John Wright, Neil Small, Emily S. Petherick, Alan H. Bittles |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male 0301 basic medicine Adolescent Cross-sectional study media_common.quotation_subject Developing country Genes Recessive Consanguinity 030105 genetics & heredity Cohort Studies Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Residence Characteristics Humans Medicine Family Pakistan 030212 general & internal medicine Marriage Young adult Child Developing Countries Aged media_common Aged 80 and over business.industry Homozygote Genetic Diseases Inborn Infant Newborn Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant General Social Sciences Middle Aged Social stratification Cross-Sectional Studies Endogamy Child Preschool Female Psychological resilience business Demography Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biosocial Science. 49:435-446 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7599 0021-9320 |
| Popis: | SummaryThe 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 Bradford is presented. There is historical resilience of intra-biraderi marriage, but with a secular decline in prevalence across all biraderi and considerable reductions in some. While a majority of marriages in all biraderi are consanguineous the prevalence varies, ranging from over 80% to under 60%. In consanguineous unions, first cousin marriages account for more than 50% in five of the fifteen biraderi and >40% in six others. Within-biraderi marriage and consanguinity enhance genetic stratification, thereby increasing rates of genomic homozygosity and the increased expression of recessive genetic disorders. The trends reported constitute putative signals of generational change in the marital choices in this community. |
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