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[Frequency of consanguineous unions in the Tlemcen area (West Algeria)]
Salah Zaoui1, Christian Biémont
1Institut des sciences de la nature, BP 119, Université A.-Belkaid, 13000 Tlemcen, Algérie. S_ZAOUI@mail.univ-tlemcen.dz
Abstract:
In order to describe consanguineous unions and their effects in a sample of the Algerian population, we interviewed 3,983 couples in a hospital and from urban and rural areas near Tlemcen. We observed that unions between cousins represented 34.0% of the marriages. The frequency of unions between relatives was lower in the urban (30.6%) than in the rural areas (40.5%). This difference can be explained by changing custom and family relationships in urban areas, and is evidenced by social and anthropologic factors and the attitude towards consanguineous unions.
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