How To Use consanguineous In A Sentence
- Thus deleterious recessives had not been eliminated from the population to the extent that consanguineous matings were harmless in terms of offspring viability.
- We use the patterns of homozygosity at multiple loci to distinguish between excess homozygosity caused by consanguineous mating and that due to undetected population subdivision.
- But risk is more in the case of consanguineous marriages.
- Whether consanguineous marriages, such as are permitted in civilised nations, and which would not be considered as close interbreeding in the case of our domesticated animals, cause any injury will never be known with certainty until a census is taken with this object in view. Cue outrage in three, two, one…
- The patients and spouses were not consanguineous to each other.
- In the context of the preliminary field reports, the low levels of genetic variation found within colonies appeared to result from consanguineous mating.
- Consanguineous marriages are not new; ask our own royal family. Times, Sunday Times
- Recurrence of common complex diseases also may be increased in the children of consanguineous parents because of a greater proportion of shared genes.
- Although many incest statutes apply only to consanguineous relationships, some apply to all legally sanctioned parent-child relationships.
- The most obvious is the mating system, which generates ‘short-term’ inbreeding, i.e., inbreeding caused by one or a few generations of consanguineous matings.
