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(Left) Absence of inbreeding: horizontal lines connect mates, vertical lines connect parents with their child; (right) an inbreeding loop: horizontal bar at top of loop connects brother and sister, all other lines and bars as above

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autosomal recessive inheritance
- In human genetic disease: Autosomal recessive inheritance
extended family
- In extended family
nuclear family
- In nuclear family

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Alan H. Bittles
Foundation Professor of Human Biology, Edith Cowan University, Perth, W.Aus.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Consanguineous marriages.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 22, 2024
	Add new Web site: CORE - The impact of consanguinity on neonatal and infant health.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 31, 2024
	Add new Web site: World Health Organization - Institutional Repository for Information Sharing - Consanguinity.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 27, 2024
	Add new Web site: Nature - Consanguinity and willingness to perform premarital genetic screening in Sudan.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 15, 2024
	Add new Web site: NSW Government - Health Centre for Genetics Education - When parents are related Consaguinity.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 18, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Consanguinity and its relevance to clinical genetics.	Aakanksha Gaur	Sep 29, 2023
	Add new Web site: PNAS - Consanguinity, human evolution, and complex diseases.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jul 21, 2023
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Consanguineous marriages.	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 01, 2023
	Changed mortality in offspring from first-cousin marriages from "4 to 5 percent higher than in nonconsanguineous progeny" to "about 3.5 to 4.5 percent higher than in nonconsanguineous progeny."	Kara Rogers	Jun 26, 2012
	Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Consanguinity.	Shweta Gupta	Sep 25, 2007
	Added new Web site: GeneWeb - Consanguinity.	Shweta Gupta	Sep 25, 2007
	Added new Web site: National Library for Health - Consanguinity.	Shweta Gupta	Sep 25, 2007
	Added new Web site: GENUKI - Consanguinity.	Shweta Gupta	Sep 25, 2007
	Article thoroughly revised.	Kara Rogers	Jun 04, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998