The distribution of 514 cases of consanguineousmarriage from genealogies was as follows:
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There is, therefore, a strong indication of lowered vitality as a result of consanguineousmarriage.
3
We found a 50% rate of consanguineousmarriage, independent of the community of origin.
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It is doubtless a mating of like with like; and biologically, consanguineousmarriage is nothing more.
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An 11-yr-old girl, born out of a consanguineousmarriage presented with recurrent exertional syncope due to ventricular tachycardia.
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The conclusions, then, in regard to the frequency of consanguineousmarriage in the United States may be summarized as follows:
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Such acknowledgement is due to the many genealogists and other friends who have kindly furnished detailed cases of consanguineousmarriage.
8
The cases of two sisters from a consanguineousmarriage with the syndrome of renal magnesium wasting, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis are presented.
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Honesty demands, therefore, that consanguineousmarriage be not credited with results for which the consanguineous element is in no wise responsible.
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The most important physiological effect of consanguineousmarriage is to intensify any or all inheritable family characteristics or peculiarities by double inheritance.
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If one is going to credit consanguineousmarriage with these evil results, what can one say when evil results fail to follow?
12
Wherever statistics have been gathered it is the rule that the percentage of consanguineousmarriage is greater in rural than in urban districts.
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We are unable to see in such a history as that of Hopetown, Bahama Islands, any evidence that consanguineousmarriage necessarily results in degeneracy.
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And when rational laws prohibit the marriage of the diseased and the degenerate, the problem of consanguineousmarriage will cease to be of vital importance.
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Dr. Bemiss found a very high death-rate among the children of consanguineousmarriage, due partly to the fact that his cases were reported by physicians.
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Consanguinity means blood relationship, and consanguineousmarriages are marriages between near blood relatives.