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What does consanguineous mean?

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  1. Related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
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The idea that the children from consanguineous marriages are apt to be deaf and dumb has no foundation in fact.
In the context of the preliminary field reports, the low levels of genetic variation found within colonies appeared to result from consanguineous mating.
Besides consanguineous marriages, there are other reasons for a baby to be born with a defective heart.
Consanguinity means blood relationship, and consanguineous marriages are marriages between near blood relatives.
Recurrence of common complex diseases also may be increased in the children of consanguineous parents because of a greater proportion of shared genes.
Virchow, Prof., blindness occurring in the offspring of consanguineous marriages, ii.

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