When we think of our family members, especially our cousins, the words that probably come to our minds are “friend” or “brother” or “sister”. But unfortunately, in some Middle Eastern, African and ...

Basic genetics tells us that consanguineous mating ("inbreeding," defined as sexual union between second cousins or closer) is bad. Each of us carries approximately 500-1200 deleterious mutations in ...

A new study finds that consanguinity – unions between close relatives – may increase the risk of common diseases such as type 2 diabetes and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Researchers from the ...

In many human populations, mating between relatives is relatively frequent and encouraged for social and/or economic reasons. Measuring inbreeding levels around the world has been the subject of many ...

This publication can be found at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22491754. Raymond Harris Thompson, ed., "The Antiquities Act of 1906 by Ronald Freeman Lee ...

Long ago in Latin class I must have established a link between nepotism and Cornelius Nepos, the Roman biographer and friend of Catullus and Cicero. Only recently, when confronted with questions about ...

Community Genetics, Vol. 5, No. 3, Symposium on Community Genetics in Developing Countries: January 16–18, 2002, Bangalore, India (2002), pp. 182-185 (4 pages) Objective:Consanguineous marriage is a ...

Consanguineous marriages have been practiced around the globe by many societies from time immemorial, particularly in South India. Consanguineous marriages play a major role in the health of a ...

Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators at Queen Mary University of London analysed the genomic data of diverse groups to investigate the relationship between ...

Nearly 14 in every 100 Indian women marry first cousins or other close or distant relatives and face enhanced risks of spontaneous abortions, stillbirths and post-neonatal child mortality, new ...

An estimated 0.2 percent of marriages in the United States are between individuals who are second cousins or closer — that means there are about 250,000 people in America in those relationships. I ...