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CIVIL UNREST AND THE CURRENT PROFILE OF CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PROVINCE, PAKISTAN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

AFTAB ALAM STHANADAR ,
ALAN H. BITTLES  and
MUHAMMAD ZAHID
AFTAB ALAM STHANADAR
Affiliation:
Islamia College University, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan Post Graduate College Dargai, Malakand, KPK, Pakistan
ALAN H. BITTLES
Affiliation:
Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
MUHAMMAD ZAHID*
Affiliation:
Islamia College University, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan
*
1Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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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.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 46 , Issue 5 , September 2014 , pp. 698 - 701
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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