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

It’s a wise choice, in keeping with the overall tone of a story about adolescents held together by a cultivated consanguinity.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2020

Through fandom, he built a life, a family, and a community not around consanguinity, but around the heart.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2012

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