Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS, cilt.27, sa.2, ss.20-32, 2021 (SSCI)
The findings regarding the effect of consanguineous marriage on the growth pat-tern of neonates, which increases the rate of recessive hereditary diseases by caus-ing a decrease in the number of homozygous loci, are controversial. In this study, the effects of consanguineous marriage on the growth pattern of neonates are dis-cussed when the effect of some maternal characteristics is controlled. Two hundred and twenty-five healthy neonates and their mothers born at the Sivas Cumhuriyet University Neonatology Clinic are examined within the scope of the study; 100 of them formed the group of relatives, and 125 of them formed the non-relatives group. The weight, height, head, and chest girth measurements of the babies were taken, and the weight and height of the mothers were measured; the information regarding the age, number of pregnancies, the number of live births, and education levels were recorded. It is observed that first-degree cousin marriages have no de-tectable effect on the four anthropometric mean vectors of male and female neonates when the effects of maternal characteristics are controlled. In conclusion, it can be said that the strongest maternal effect on the growth level of neonates is the mother's education level; this factor is the strongest moderator variable that controls the effect of consanguineous marriage.