RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The frequency of consanguineous marriage among British Pakistanis.
JF Journal of Medical Genetics
JO J Med Genet
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 186
OP 190
DO 10.1136/jmg.25.3.186
VO 25
IS 3
A1 A Darr
A1 B Modell
YR 1988
UL http://jmg.bmj.com/content/25/3/186.abstract
AB An enquiry answered by 100 randomly selected British Pakistani mothers in the postnatal wards of two hospitals in West Yorkshire showed that 55 were married to their first cousins, while in only 33 cases had their mother been married to her first cousin. This suggests an increasing rate of consanguineous marriage in this relatively small group, by contrast with the decreasing rate observed in some other countries. The genetic implications merit further study.