Consanguinity
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Consanguinity ("con- (with/together) sanguine (blood) -ity (noun marker)") refers to the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that respect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person. Consanguinity is an important legal concept in that the laws of many jurisdictions consider consanguinity as a factor in deciding whether two individuals may be married or whether a given person inherits property when a deceased person has not left a will.
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See also
- Cousin marriage
- Affinity (law)
- Cognatic kinship
- Coefficient of relationship
- Cousin
- Genetic distance
- List of coupled cousins
- Endogamy
- Heredity
- Genealogy
- Genetics
- Inbreeding
- Mendelian inheritance
- Nepotism
- Pedigree collapse
- Prohibited degree of kinship
- Proximity of blood
- Inbreeding depression
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