Jc. Grant et Ah. Bittles, THE COMPARATIVE ROLE OF CONSANGUINITY IN INFANT AND CHILDHOOD MORTALITY IN PAKISTAN, Annals of Human Genetics, 61, 1997, pp. 143-149
As part of the 1990/1991 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, data
were collected on the outcome of 26408 births to 6611 women, with mort
ality rates investigated at specific age intervals during the first 5
years of life. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses
were employed to examine the comparative roles of consanguineous marr
iage and a number of demographic and socioeconomic factors, including
the sex of the child, maternal age, maternal education, birth interval
and birth order, as determinants of early death. The results indicate
that, even after controlling for these non-genetic variables, inbreed
ing at the level of first cousin exerted a significant adverse effect
on survival in four of the five age intervals examined, neonatal, post
-neonatal, infant and under 5 years.