2013/10/08 by Aftab Alam Sthanadar, A.H. Bittles, Muhammad Zahid · 16 citations
Medicine · #Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders #Khyber pakhtunkhwa #Inbreeding #Consanguineous Marriage #Unrest #Consanguinity #Geography #Endogamy #Demography #Socioeconomics #Developing country #Rural population #Population #Biology #Sociology #Ecology #Political science #Genetics #Politics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0021932013000552
published in Journal of Biosocial Science 46(5), 698-701 (Cambridge University Press)
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Summary Information on the current prevalence and types of consanguineous marriages in Malakand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK), Pakistan, was collected from 1192 rural couples. Some 66.4% of marriages were between couples related as second cousins or closer ( F ≥0.0156), equivalent to a mean coefficient of inbreeding ( α ) of 0.0338. The data suggest that the prevalence of consanguineous unions in Malakand has been increasing during the last decade, in response to the high levels of violence across KPK.