| 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. |
| In the context of the preliminary field reports, the low levels of genetic variation found within colonies appeared to result from consanguineous mating. |
| The idea that the children from consanguineous marriages are apt to be deaf and dumb has no foundation in fact. |
| Fully recessive mutations are maintained in higher frequencies than partially recessive ones and thus cause greater declines in fitness under consanguineous matings. |
| Consanguinity means blood relationship, and consanguineous marriages are marriages between near blood relatives. |
