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  2. Genetic studies on Arabs - Wikipedia

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    Genetic studies on Arabs refers to the analyses of the genetics of ethnic Arab people in the Middle East and North Africa.Arabs are genetically diverse as a result of their intermarriage and mixing with indigenous people of the pre-Islamic Middle East and North Africa following the Arab and Islamic expansion.

  3. Cousin marriage in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal recessive genetic abnormalities were observed at most and 75.4% of the total reported cases, followed by autosomal dominant 19.7%. The main reason behind the high percentage of autosomal recessive conditions is the union between groups of people known to share genetic traits inherited from one or more common ancestors. [38]

  4. Heredity - Wikipedia

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    Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.

  5. Genetic history of the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    The genetic history of the Middle East is the subject of research within the fields of human population genomics, archaeogenetics and Middle Eastern studies.Researchers use Y-DNA, mtDNA, and other autosomal DNA tests to identify the genetic history of ancient and modern populations of Egypt, Persia, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Arabia, the Levant, and other areas.

  6. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    Inheritance can be organized in a way that its use is restricted by the desires of someone (usually of the decedent). [160] An inheritance may have been organized as a fideicommissum, which usually cannot be sold or diminished, only its profits are disposable. A fideicommissum's succession can also be ordered in a way that determines it long ...

  7. Genomic imprinting - Wikipedia

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    [9] [59] [60] In it, a subset of paternally expressed genes are co-expressed in both the placenta and the mother's hypothalamus. This would come about through selective pressure from parent-infant coadaptation to improve infant survival. Paternally expressed 3 is a gene for which this hypothesis may apply. [9]

  8. Islamic family jurisprudence - Wikipedia

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    Islamic Inheritance jurisprudence is a field of Islamic jurisprudence (Arabic: فقه) that deals with inheritance, a topic that is prominently dealt with in the Qur'an. It is often called Mīrāth , and its branch of Islamic law is technically known as ʿilm al-farāʾiḍ ( Arabic : علم الفرائض , "the science of the ordained quotas").

  9. Human genetics - Wikipedia

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    Human genetics is the study of inheritance as it occurs in human beings.Human genetics encompasses a variety of overlapping fields including: classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, population genetics, developmental genetics, clinical genetics, and genetic counseling.