select search filters
briefings
roundups & rapid reactions
Fiona fox's blog
Speakers:
Prof Alan Bittles, Director of the Centre for Human Genetics at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia
Dr Peter Corry, consultant paediatrician, Bradford Child Development Centre
Over 1 billion people live in countries where 20-50% of all marriages are consanguineous (between second cousins or closer relatives). However, there have been few studies of consanguinity and its health impacts. To coincide with the Royal Society of Medicine conference Celebrating 100 Years of Medical Genetics (22-23 May), the SMC invited some of the world’s leading experts in this field to brief journalists on consanguinous marriages and their potential risks and benefits.