A H Bittles

Dados Biográficos

ID93707
NOMEA H Bittles
PRENOMESA H
SOBRENOMEBittles
ASSINATURABITTLES A H
AFILIAÇÕESEdith Cowan University
ORCID0000-0002-8176-2730
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS54
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES70
TOTAL COMO AUTOR54
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1981
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ÍNDICE H4

  • Has the long-predicted decline in consanguineous marriage in India occurred?

    Open AccessNutan Kumari, A H Bittles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2020

    To an extent the question posed in the title of this paper can simply be answered in the affirmative. Based on the extensive data available from the National Family Health Survey-1 (NFHS-1) conducted in 1992–93 and NFHS-4 in 2015–16 there has been a significant overall decline of some 19% in the prevalence of consanguineous marriage in India. However, when examined at state level the picture is more complex, with large reductions in consanguinity…

  • Estimating the Health and Socioeconomic Effects of Cousin Marriage in South Asia

    Open AccessAhmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Theresa Chaudhry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2019

    The effects of marriage between biological relatives on the incidence of childhood genetic illness and mortality are of major policy significance, as rates of consanguinity exceed 50% in various countries. Empirical research on this question is complicated by the fact that consanguinity is often correlated with poverty and other unobserved characteristics of households, which may have independent effects on mortality. This study has developed an …

  • Haemoglobinopathies in India

    Open AccessSujata Sinha, Tulika Seth et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Genetics2019

  • Consanguineous Marriage

    Open AccessA H BittlesOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Human populations can be divided into societies in which marriage between close family members is traditional and societies where it is avoided or precluded. Consanguineous unions are mainly chosen on cultural, social, and economic grounds, whereas the reasons for their avoidance largely reflect religious doctrine and the prevention of adverse health effects. Consanguinity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, mainly due to the ex…

  • Estimating the birth prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of congenital malformations worldwide

    Open AccessSowmiya Moorthie, Hannah Blencowe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Genetics2018

    Congenital anomaly registries have two main surveillance aims: firstly to define baseline epidemiology of important congenital anomalies to facilitate programme, policy and resource planning, and secondly to identify clusters of cases and any other epidemiological changes that could give early warning of environmental or infectious hazards. However, setting up a sustainable registry and surveillance system is resource-intensive requiring national…

  • Rare single gene disorders

    Open AccessHannah Blencowe, Sowmiya Moorthie et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Genetics2018

    As child mortality rates overall are decreasing, non-communicable conditions, such as genetic disorders, constitute an increasing proportion of child mortality, morbidity and disability. To date, policy and public health programmes have focused on common genetic disorders. Rare single gene disorders are an important source of morbidity and premature mortality for affected families. When considered collectively, they account for an important publi…

  • Endogamy, Consanguinity and the Health Implications of Changing Marital Choices in the Uk Pakistani Community

    Open AccessNeil Small, A H Bittles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2017

    The biraderi (brotherhood) is a long-established, widely prevalent dimension of social stratification in Pakistani communities worldwide. Alongside consanguinity, it offers a route for cementing social solidarities and so has strong socio-biological significance. A detailed breakdown of biraderi affiliation among participants in an ongoing birth cohort study in the northern English city of Bradford is presented. There is historical resilience of …

  • Response to Rehman Et Al . (2015)

    Open AccessAftab Alam Sthanadar, A H Bittles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2016

  • Increasing Prevalence of Consanguineous Marriage Confirmed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

    Open AccessAftab Alam Sthanadar, A H Bittles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2016

    In their article on tribal Pashtuns in north-west Pakistan, Ahman et al.(2015) drew attention to the slight decline during the last 20 years in the prevalence of consanguineous marriage in Bajaur Agency, which runs counter to our recent findings in neighbouring Malakand district (Sthanadar et al., 2014). We would like to clarify an apparent misreading of our paper by Ahmad et al. In their Discussion, they indicated that the 66.4% (a = 0.0338) con…

  • Consanguinity, Genetics and Definitions of Kinship in the Uk Pakistani Population

    Open AccessA H Bittles, Neil Small et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2016

    Consanguineous marriage is a controversial topic in many Western societies, with attention mainly focused on the health of immigrant communities from Asia and Africa. In the UK consanguinity is especially prevalent in the Pakistani community, which now numbers over 1.1 million. Less attention has been paid to the influence of hereditary population stratification within Pakistani communities, in particular biraderi (literally brotherhood) membersh…

  • Incest, Inbreeding, and Their Consequences

    Open AccessA H BittlesCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Civil Unrest and the Current Profile of Consanguineous Marriage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

    Open AccessAftab Alam Sthanadar, A H Bittles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2014

    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…

  • Socioeconomic, Demographic and Legal Influences on Consanguinity and Kinship in Northern Coastal Sweden 1780–1899

    Open AccessInez Egerbladh, A H BittlesARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2011

    Most studies on consanguinity have been conducted on contemporary populations and have focused on the prevalence and types of preferred intra-familial marriage. With its comprehensive birth, marriage and deaths records dating back to the late 17th century, and the legal bar on first cousin marriage removed in the mid-19th century, Sweden offers unique opportunities to examine the factors that determine by whom, where and why consanguineous marria…

  • Genetics, demography and social structure in human variation and health

    Open AccessA H BittlesARTICLEHOMO2010

  • Community genetics. Its definition 2010

    Open AccessLeo P ten Kate, Lihadh Al‐Gazali et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Genetics2010

    This paper presents a definition of the medical field of community genetics. It starts with a brief historical overview, defines the requirements for an adequate definition, presents the definition, and discusses the constituent parts of the definition

  • A descriptive profile of β-thalassaemia mutations in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

    Open AccessMichael L Black, Sujata Sinha et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Genetics2010

  • Consanguineous Marriage and Human Evolution

    A H Bittles, Michael L BlackARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2010Citada por: 18Referências: 84

    Mate choice among early human groups and in many historical populations was subject to both demographic and social constraints, ensuring that most unions were between couples who had coinherited substantial proportions of their genomes from common ancestors. Even in populations in which close consanguineous marriage was proscribed, community endogamy would have been sufficient to ensure high levels of homozygosity. Consanguineous marriage remains…

  • Inherited Dimensions of Human Populations in the Past

    Open AccessA H Bittles, Alan Bittles et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2008Citada por: 2Referências: 8

  • Physical Anthropology and Ethnicity in Asia

    Open AccessA H Bittles, Michael L Black et al.ARTICLEJournal of PHYSIOLOGICAL…2007Referências: 5

    Initial physical anthropology studies into ethnic diversity were largely dependent on comparative whole body and craniometric measurements, and through time assessments of ethnic diversity based on these measures exhibited increasing statistical sophistication. Since the 1990s, in Asia as elsewhere in the world, human diversity studies have increasingly utilized DNA-based analyses, with Y-chromosome and mtDNA markers providing complementary persp…

  • Genetic ancestries in northwest Cambodia

    Open AccessMichael L Black, K Dufall et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2006

    A survey of the genetic ancestry of 125 Cambodian children resident in Siem Reap province was undertaken, based on eight Y-chromosome binary polymorphisms and sequencing of the mtDNA HV1 region. The data indicated a largely East Asian paternal ancestry and a local Southeast Asian maternal ancestry. The presence of Y-chromosomes P* and R1al* was suggestive of a small but significant Indo-European male ancestral component, which probably reflects t…

  • Combining Genetics and Population History in the Study of Ethnic Diversity in the People's Republic of China

    Michael L Black, C A Wise et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2006Citada por: 3Referências: 6

    Genomic data have increasingly been used to complement linguistic, archeological, and anthropological evidence in reconstructing the origins and migratory patterns of modern humans. East Asia is a particular hotspot of human migration, especially mainland China, where a large number of human fossils have been unearthed and more than 20% of the world's population now resides. There are 56 officially recognized ethnic populations (minzu) in China. …

  • Genetics and population health

    Open AccessA H Bittles, Wendy N ErberARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2005

    There has been a widespread belief that genetic disorders are of little importance in low income countries, an opinion that is perhaps understandable given the often daunting prevalence of infectious diseases and nutritional problems faced by these populations. The failure to recognize genetic disorders as significant contributors to the overall disease profile of low income countries is, however, a serious error. For example, an estimated 7.6 mi…

  • Y‐chromosome and mitochondrial DNA studies on the population structure of the Christmas Island community

    Open AccessC Wise, Cheryl A Wise et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2005Citada por: 1Referências: 35

    Christmas Island is a remote Australian territory located close to the main Indonesian island of Java. Y‐chromosome and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers were used to investigate the genetic structure of the population, which comprises communities of mixed ethnic origin. Analysis of 12 Y‐chromosome biallelic polymorphisms revealed a high level of gene diversity and haplotype frequencies that were consistent with source populations in southern Chi…

  • Consanguinity, Caste and Deaf-Mutism in Punjab, 1921

    Open AccessA H Bittles, Sheena G Sullivan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2004

    The effects of religion, population sub-division and geography on the prevalence of deaf-mutism were investigated using information collected in the 1921 Census of Punjab. The total sample size was 9·36 million, and comprised data on thirteen Hindu castes, seventeen Muslim biraderis and two Sikh castes. A two-way analysis of variance comparing males in Hindu castes in which consanguineous marriage was prohibited, with males in Muslim biraderis wh…

  • Comparative survival advantage of males with down syndrome

    Open AccessEmma J Glasson, Sheena G Sullivan et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2003

    In virtually all countries life expectancy is longer in females than in males. A multigeneration, population‐based dataset was used to investigate whether a gender‐specific difference in life expectancy could be determined in a large cohort (n = 1,332) of people with Down syndrome resident in Western Australia. Contrary to the established pattern of longevity in the general population, and in most people with intellectual disability, males with D…