consanguinity

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The findings, now published in Genetics in Medicine OPEN, revealed a correlation between occurrences of complex genetic disorders in those families with increased levels of consanguinity when compared to unaffected populations.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2024

"In general terms, our studies have shown that the health risks attributed to consanguinity have been exaggerated."

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

While you can’t tell someone else how to feel about surprise consanguinity, I don’t think you’ve learned anything that you’re obliged to disclose.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2020

And without that illusion of chosen consanguinity, the expositional creakiness of Mr. Crowley’s script is laid unflatteringly bare.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018

After everything she had done to atone for her crime, after she had turned her marriage into an arctic wasteland and allowed a surgeon to tie her fallopian tubes, consanguinity wasn’t finished with her.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides