0 connected with the fact of people being blood relations (= related to someone by birth, not marriage): --
Their parents are consanguineous, and the clinical course of their illness was similar.
The actual amount left to completely non-consanguineous strangers is a tiny fraction.
Similarly, there are few signs that consanguineous marriages may be on the wane, and the effect of consanguinity on mortality remains considerable, even when controlling for other variables.
The role of consanguineous marriage as a predictor of mortality appears to increase during the study period, while birth intervals and first-born status appear to decrease in importance.
Consequently, they were less likely to be earning any form of cash income for their work by comparison with the women in non-consanguineous unions (data not shown).
In general the rate of consanguineous marriage has fallen sharply in developed countries over the past century, and this will have temporarily reduced the birth frequency of recessive conditions.
An estimate of the mutational damage in man from data on consanguineous marriages.
Lastly, the number of consanguineous marriages in each village is not large.
