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Consanguinity and marriage systems in the Jewish community in Israel

Consanguinity and marriage systems in the Jewish community in Israel Consanguinity and marriage systems in the Jewish community in Israel BY JENNI TSAFRIR AND ISAAC HALBRECHT Institute of Human Reproduction and Fetal Development, Tel Aviv University Medical School, and H m h r o n Hospital, Petah Tiqwa, Israel INTRODUCTION It has been well recognized by geneticists and sociologists in Israel that the waves of immigration which have occurred in the past two decades or so must have resulted in pronounced changes in the structure of the immigrant populations as compared with their structure and composition in the countries from which they came. One interesting sociological phenomenon which is bound to have an influence on the genetic composition of a population is the tendency towards ‘inbreeding’, taken to include identity both within families and within countries, or ‘outbreeding ’, including marriage both with persons from different countries of origin and from different communities or ethnic groups. Goldschmidt, Ronen & Ronen in 1960 published a study on consanguinity rates and marriage systems in Israel over a three-year period (1955-7). Their information was obtained by interviewing the mothers of new-born babies in the maternity wards in eight large hospitals in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Haifa. During two 3-month periods in 1969-70 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of Human Genetics Wiley

Consanguinity and marriage systems in the Jewish community in Israel

Annals of Human Genetics , Volume 35 (3) – Mar 1, 1972

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Copyright © 1972 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0003-4800
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1469-1809
DOI
10.1111/j.1469-1809.1957.tb01408.x
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Consanguinity and marriage systems in the Jewish community in Israel BY JENNI TSAFRIR AND ISAAC HALBRECHT Institute of Human Reproduction and Fetal Development, Tel Aviv University Medical School, and H m h r o n Hospital, Petah Tiqwa, Israel INTRODUCTION It has been well recognized by geneticists and sociologists in Israel that the waves of immigration which have occurred in the past two decades or so must have resulted in pronounced changes in the structure of the immigrant populations as compared with their structure and composition in the countries from which they came. One interesting sociological phenomenon which is bound to have an influence on the genetic composition of a population is the tendency towards ‘inbreeding’, taken to include identity both within families and within countries, or ‘outbreeding ’, including marriage both with persons from different countries of origin and from different communities or ethnic groups. Goldschmidt, Ronen & Ronen in 1960 published a study on consanguinity rates and marriage systems in Israel over a three-year period (1955-7). Their information was obtained by interviewing the mothers of new-born babies in the maternity wards in eight large hospitals in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Haifa. During two 3-month periods in 1969-70

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Published: Mar 1, 1972

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