[Population genetics research in the Lerik region of Azerbaijan]

Tsitol Genet. 2000 Sep-Oct;34(5):22-9.
[Article in Ukrainian]

Abstract

The results of populational, clinic-genealogical and genetic-demographic research for six villages in Lerik region of Azerbaijan Republic are presented. The frequency of consanguineous marriages according to pedigrees was 62.3% with 32.4% of marriages between cousins. Inbreeding coefficient F = 0.0486 is considerably higher that the mean value for population of the Republic (F = 0.0063). The register of patients with congenital and inherited pathologies in the population of the studied villages has been set up. Genetic screening of glucose-6-phosphatedehydrogenase erythrocyte enzyme deficiency in schoolchildren revealed high frequency of pathologic gene (36.4%) previously unregistered for the population of the Republic.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Azerbaijan / epidemiology
  • Consanguinity*
  • Female
  • Gene Frequency
  • Genetic Diseases, Inborn / epidemiology*
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / epidemiology
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Male