Typically the disease only manifests within a single group of brothers and sisters or in consanguineous families and cousins. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
You make a good point on consanguineous marriages. From Wordnik.com. [Cue outrage in three, two, one…] Reference
Filed under consanguineous marriage, number of ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
Incas of Peru close consanguineous marriages were very common. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Filed under consanguineous marriage, marriage, unexpected discoveries. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Honophrius, Felicia, Eugenius and Jeremias are consanguineous to the lowest degree. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Consequently, consanguineous unions were a significant proportion of the consecrated marriages. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
Like Vishnu looking after the celestials, thou shouldst always look after all consanguineous relatives. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Consanguinity means blood relationship, and consanguineous marriages are marriages between near blood relatives. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Genealogies describe consanguineous relations, while estate inventories name spouses and children, both minor and adult. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
This book will be enjoyed by all those who appreciate the consanguineous novels of Van Reid, James Blaylock, and Tim Powers. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
How far, however, if at all, such deafness is to be directly ascribed to consanguineous marriages, is a matter for question. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
Insanity is markedly decreasing in India, despite consanguineous marriages. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature] Reference
The rate of consanguineous marriage is between 30% and 80% in the Arab world. From Wordnik.com. [Car and Driver Blog] Reference
There was, indeed, a considerable amount of consanguineous marriage involved. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
Among others, Dr. Nathan Allen has insisted on the danger of consanguineous marriages. From Wordnik.com. [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference
Islands, any evidence that consanguineous marriage necessarily results in degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
Some clans, the Habr Yunis for instance, refuse maidens of the same or even of a consanguineous family. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
There is in all their emotions a vascular quality or consanguineous tincture never to be wholly eliminated. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendships of Women] Reference
It is particularly in places where consanguineous marriages are prevalent that supernumerary digits persist in a family. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Several studies show that children of consanguineous marriages have lower intelligence than children of non-related parents. From Wordnik.com. [Moonbattery] Reference
To determine the frequency and clinical features of bleeding disorders in the tribe as a result of consanguineous marriages. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Under such conditions, defectives would be bound to multiply, regardless of whether or not the marriages are consanguineous. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
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