A multicenter clinical exome study in unselected cohorts from a consanguineous population of Saudi Arabia demonstrated a high diagnostic yield

A Alfares, M Alfadhel, T Wani, S Alsahli… - Molecular genetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
unselected cohort for phenotype, including consanguineous unions, had a statistically higher
diagnostic yield. Studies with a larger cohort … family history and consanguinity. The higher …

Recent consanguinity and outbred autozygosity are associated with increased risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease

V Napolioni, MA Scelsi, RR Khan, A Altmann… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
consanguinity and autozygosity in the outbred population … genome wide F ROH in unselected
samples (standard deviation in … decades when more recent cohorts, composed of subjects …

When to think outside the autozygome: best practices for exome sequencing in “consanguineous” families

A Eaton, T Hartley, K Kernohan, Y Ito… - Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
cohort (46.2%) is somewhat higher than the average diagnostic yield in unselected cohorts
… but is in keeping with yields reported in highly consanguineous populations.13, 14, 32, 33 …

Autozygosity-driven genetic diagnosis in consanguineous families from Italy and the Greater Middle East

F Palombo, C Graziano, N Al Wardy, N Nouri… - Human Genetics, 2020 - Springer
… In these studies, almost the entire cohorts have GME ancestry, … population known to have
high inbreeding levels and/or … analysis in an European population, where consanguinity is not …

Genetic counseling and screening of consanguineous couples and their offspring: Recommendations of the National Society of Genetic Counselors

RL Bennett, AG Motulsky, A Bittles… - Journal of genetic …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
populations in which a proportion of marriages are consanguineous, and for individuals …
are related through multiple loops of consanguinity (see under Populations With High Mean …

[HTML][HTML] Screening of obese offspring of first-cousin consanguineous subjects for the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene with a 287-bp Alu sequence

AF Alshammary, IA Khan - Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
population regarding the ACE gene in consanguineous … with children in the normal population.
Recessive genes do not … , next-generation sequencing, and cohort studies have identified …

Congenital anomalies and associated risk factors in a Saudi population: a cohort study from pregnancy to age 2 years

AM Kurdi, MA Majeed-Saidan, MS Al Rakaf… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
consanguinity-related counselling could have significant and broad health benefits in this
cohort and arguably in the larger Saudi population. … cohort (babies without CAs not selected as …

What is the right sequencing approach? Solo VS extended family analysis in consanguineous populations

A Alfares, L Alsubaie, T Aloraini, A Alaskar… - BMC medical …, 2020 - Springer
… Three cohorts were used for this analysis: one cohort to assess the hit rate between solo, …
illustration of the three cohort structures enrolled in this study. a Clinical testing cohort with the …

Population genetics: consanguinity, genetic drift

F Vogel, AG Motulsky, F Vogel, AG Motulsky - Human Genetics: Problems …, 1997 - Springer
consanguineous marriages than in the general population. This fact can be used to estimate
the number of such recessive genes in each individual of the population. … unselected series …

[PDF][PDF] Association of consanguineous marriages with congenital anomalies

S Khalid, M Naveed, H Waseem… - Pakistan BioMedical …, 2019 - researchgate.net
… were not selectedConsanguinity is a mixture of two words taken from Latin language; “con”
means similar and “sanguineus” means blood, it indicates an association between people