La frontière communautaire entre druzes et sunnites en Syrie by Cyril Roussel

“…The Middle East, a multicultural and multi-community area, presents (offers) an exciting field to the study of socio-cultural phenomena and to their spatial effects. From the druze example in Syria, we shall show how a social border, the one built by the group itself, has generated a community territory delimited by well differentiated borders and how the last mentioned were used as a basis to the construction of political borders from the moment that the strategies of the successive ruling states in Syria converged with the socio-spatial construction produced by the Druze community.…”
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Identification of a pathogenic founder variant in the WFS1 gene that causes Wolfram syndrome in the Druze population by Inbal Halabi, Inbal Halabi, Yardena Tenenbaum-Rakover, Yardena Tenenbaum-Rakover, Lena Sagi-Dain, Lena Sagi-Dain, Lena Sagi-Dain, Ilana Koren, Ilana Koren, Ilana Koren

“…The identified variant should be considered for genetic testing in individuals of Druze ancestry diagnosed with young-onset non-autoimmune diabetes. …”
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« Vouloir de la politique » by Isabelle Rivoal

“…Based on an ethnography of the partisan socialisation of Druze youths, the article shows how youths “detach” themselves from their family positioning in order to become the “army of the president [Walid Joumblatt]”. …”
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La politique nationale de réconciliation et de relocalisation des populations déplacées dans le Liban d’après-guerre by Dima de Clerck

“…The state returnee policy in southern Mount Lebanon, where several massacres had taken place in 1983, claimed to prioritize reconciliation between Christians and Druze to prevent resorting to, or being victim of reprisal. …”
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Microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II in four Indian children with PCNT variants by Amit Singh, Mahak Garg, Mohammed Shariq, Preeti Khetarpal, Inusha Panigrahi

“…The variant PCNT:c.3465-1G > A has previously been reported in two unrelated patients in Israeli Druze population. The c.9273 + 1G > A variant has been documented in two independent studies, one from the United states and the other from the United Kingdom. …”
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