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Global prevalence of consanguine marriage, illustrating a higher prevalence of cousin marriage in the Middle East in 2013. Globally, 8.5% of children have consanguineous parents, and 20% of the human population live in communities practicing endogamy.
A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. [1]
In an uncle–niece or a double first cousin marriage, the couple is assumed to have inherited 1/4 of their genes from a common ancestor, whereas in first cousin unions the assumption is that the couple has inherited 1/8 of their genes from a common ancestor, and for a second cousin couple the comparable proportion is 1/32.
Each summer my parents put on "Cousin Camp" for the grandkids. For the past 8 years, they invite all the grandkids age 5+ to spend 4 days on the farm, away from parents, with their cousins.
Thus, a parent and child pair has a value of r=0.5 (sharing 50% of DNA), siblings have a value of r=0.5, a parent's sibling has r=0.25 (25% of DNA), and first cousins have r=0.125 (12.5% of DNA). These are often expressed in terms of a percentage of shared DNA but can be also popularly referred to as % of genes although that terminology is ...
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Five states prohibit first-cousin-once-removed marriages. [4] Some states prohibiting cousin marriage recognize cousin marriages performed in other states, but despite occasional claims that this holds true in general, [5] laws also exist that explicitly void all foreign cousin marriages or marriages conducted by state residents out of state.
Even with the chart and the explanations above, it can be hard to map a concept like “second cousin thrice removed” onto real-life Maureen, who you know only as making the best potato salad at ...