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A half-aunt is a half-sister of a parent. A maternal aunt is the sister of one's mother. A paternal aunt is the sister of one's father. An aunt-in-law is the aunt of one's spouse. A parent's first cousin may be called a second aunt. A great-aunt [3] [4] or grandaunt [5] (sometimes written grand-aunt [6]) is the sister of one's grandparent.
As aunt/uncle and niece/nephew are separated by one generation, they are an example of a second-degree relationship. Unless related by marriage, they are 25% or more related by blood if the aunt/uncle is a full sibling of one of the parents, or 12.5% if they are a half-sibling.
The coefficient of relationship is a measure of the degree of consanguinity (or biological relationship) between two individuals. The term coefficient of relationship was defined by Sewall Wright in 1922, and was derived from his definition of the coefficient of inbreeding of 1921.
Data on cousin marriage in the United States are sparse. It was estimated in 1960 that 0.2% of all marriages between Roman Catholics were between first or second cousins, but no more recent nationwide studies have been performed. [181] It is unknown what proportion of that number were first cousins, which is the group facing marriage bans.
The definition was to be expanded from "a remaining spouse, sexual cohabitant, partner, step-parent or step-child, parent-in-law or child-in-law, or an individual related by blood whose close association is an equivalent of a family relationship who was accepted by the deceased as a child of his/her family" to include "any person who had ...
“Like most family members, aunts gravitate toward titles they were accustomed to as children, such as, ‘Aunt Emily,’ ‘Zia Bella,’ or ‘Auntie Ashley,” she says. “On occasion, an ...
In clinical genetics, consanguinity is defined as a union between two individuals who are related as second cousins or closer, with the inbreeding coefficient (F) equal or higher than 0.0156, where (F) represents the proportion of genetic loci at which the child of a consanguineous couple might inherit identical gene copies from both parents.
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