Sentence examples for consanguineous from inspiring English sources

As a result, birth defects are too common: consanguineous marriage seems to double the risk.Clans, or biraderis, are a mighty force in Bradford.

They are, in fact, incompatible with consanguineous quartz (that derived from the same parent magma), as is quite apparent from the following equations: As can be seen from these equations, a feldspar would form in lieu of its feldspathoid chemical analogue in any silica-saturated magma.

Among the Nor-Papua of New Guinea, patrilineal, exogamous groups (consanguineous sibs) are spread over several villages and are associated with animals, especially fish.

Some, such as the Atsina and Blackfoot, did not tolerate marriage between consanguineous (genetic) relatives, no matter how distant the tie, and others proscribed marriage within varying degrees of relationship.

Consanguineous marriage was not practiced during the Dynastic period, except for the occasional marriage of a brother and sister within the royal family, and that practice may have been open only to kings or heirs to the throne.

He was critical of the views of the American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan on kinship terminology, which, McLennan contended, indicated degree of respect related to considerations of station and age rather than to consanguineous relationships.

If the parents are related (consanguineous), however, they will be more likely to have inherited the same mutant gene from a common ancestor.

The chief cause of the problem in Qatar is consanguineous marriages, experts here said.

The siblings pretend to be strangers until they so convince both the other immigrants and themselves that they are just-met lovers that the captain of the ship presides over their consanguineous marriage.

Professor Neil Small from the University of Bradford, who co-led the research, said: "This is the first study that has been able to explore all causes of congenital anomaly in a population where there are sufficient numbers in both consanguineous [related by blood] and non-consanguineous groups to come to reliable conclusions.

The farms were loosely bound in an extended community, but two were especially consanguineous.