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Saudi Arabia Awakes to the Perils of Inbreeding
by bucy at 12:13 pm EDT, May 1, 2003 |
] Widespread inbreeding in Saudi Arabia has produced
] several genetic disorders, Saudi public health officials
] said, including the blood diseases of thalassemia, a
] potentially fatal hemoglobin deficiency, and sickle cell
] anemia. Spinal muscular atrophy and diabetes are also
] common, especially in the regions with the longest
] traditions of marriage between relatives. Dr. Sakati said
] she had also found links between inbreeding and deafness
] and muteness. Weird. |
Saudi Arabia Awakes to the Perils of Inbreeding
by Rattle at 6:16 pm EDT, May 1, 2003 |
] Widespread inbreeding in Saudi Arabia has produced
] several genetic disorders, Saudi public health officials
] said, including the blood diseases of thalassemia, a
] potentially fatal hemoglobin deficiency, and sickle cell
] anemia. Spinal muscular atrophy and diabetes are also
] common, especially in the regions with the longest
] traditions of marriage between relatives. Dr. Sakati said
] she had also found links between inbreeding and deafness
] and muteness. Its not just the deep south.. |
Saudi Arabia Awakes to the Perils of Inbreeding
by Possum at 11:07 pm EDT, May 2, 2003 |
] Spinal muscular atrophy and the gene that causes it,
] along with several other serious genetic disorders, are
] common in Saudi Arabia, where women have an average of
] six children and where in some regions more than half of
] the marriages are between close relatives.
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] Across the Arab world today an average of 45 percent of
] married couples are related, according to Dr. Nadia
] Sakati, a pediatrician and senior consultant for the
] genetics research center at King Faisal Specialist
] Hospital in Riyadh. |
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