Maternally transmitted non–syndromic deafness was described recently both in pedigrees
with susceptibility to aminoglycoside ototoxicity and in a large Arab–Israeli pedigree. Because …

It is common among Israeli Arabs who live in the villages to prefer consanguineous marriages,
particularly among first cousins. In addition, such villages are populated by a few (< 20) …

Objective: To determine the frequency of consanguineous marriages and the inbreeding
coefficient in Israeli Arabs. Design: Cohort survey. Setting: General community in 70 settlements …

Non-syndromic neurosensory autosomal recessive deafness (NSRD) is the most common
form of genetic hearing loss. Previous studies defined at least 15 human NSRD loci. Recently …

Consanguineous marriages have been practiced for hundreds of years in many parts of the
world. The rate of congenital malformations among the offspring is 2.5 times higher than that …

To assess the trends in the frequency of consanguineous marriages in the Israeli Arab
population in the last 40 years, we conducted a two‐part study. For the first part, we re‐analyzed …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether children with recurrent musculoskeletal pain termed
growing pains (GP) have lower pain thresholds than children without GP. METHODS: We …

We present here a large Israeli-Arab kindred with hereditary deafness. In this family 55 deaf
subjects (29M, 26F), who are otherwise healthy, have been identified and traced back five …

The relationship between mitochondrial genotype and clinical phenotype is complicated in
most instances by the heteroplasmic nature of pathogenic mitochondrial mutations. We have …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the 5-year outcome in a cohort of children with “growing pains”
and the association with changes in pain threshold. STUDY DESIGN: Subjects were 44 …