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  2. Inbreeding - Wikipedia

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    In the Western world, some Anabaptist groups are highly inbred because they originate from small founder populations that have bred as a closed population. [83] Of the practicing regions, Middle Eastern and northern African nations show the greatest frequencies of consanguinity. [71]

  3. Colt clan incest case - Wikipedia

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    "June", born in 1948, and "Tim Colt", born in 1943, were originally from New Zealand. June, who was the product of brother-sister incest, married Tim in 1966.The couple had seven children together: Martha, Frank, Paula, Cherry, Rhonda, Betty, and Charlie, before moving to Victoria in the 1970s. [1]

  4. Royal intermarriage - Wikipedia

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    The Habsburg Philip II of Spain and his wife, the Tudor Mary I of England.Mary and Philip were first cousins once removed. The wedding of Nicholas II of Russia and Alix of Hesse (whose name was changed to Alexandra Feodorovna in the process), second cousins through their shared great-grandparents Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelmine of Baden

  5. Consanguine marriage - Wikipedia

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    Consanguine marriage is marriage between individuals who are closely related. Though it may involve incest, it implies more than the sexual nature of incest.In a clinical sense, marriage between two family members who are second cousins or closer qualifies as consanguineous marriage.

  6. Xwedodah - Wikipedia

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    The Denkard, which includes passages encouraging the action, and the Dadestan-i Denig both claim that not only was the world created through xwedodah, but humanity from the Consanguine marriage of Mashya and Mashyana, who were born from the spiritually-incestuous relationship of Keyumars (produced from xwedodah with Armaiti) and Spenta Armaiti ...

  7. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    [25]: 187 Consanguinity is a deeply rooted phenomenon in 20% of the world population, mostly in the Middle East, West Asia and North Africa. [25] Globally, the most common form of consanguineous union is between first cousins, in which the spouses share 1 ⁄ 8 of their genes inherited from a common ancestor, and so their progeny are homozygous ...

  8. Pedigree collapse - Wikipedia

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    Without pedigree collapse, a person's ancestor tree is a binary tree, formed by the person, the parents (2), the grandparents (4), great-grandparents (8), and so on. However, the number of individuals in such a tree grows exponentially and will eventually become impossibly high.

  9. Cousin marriage in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    Prevalence of marriages up to and including distance of second-degree cousin in the world according to The National Center for Biotechnology Information in 2012. [15] Besides Muslims, some Jews and Arab Christians in the Middle East have a history of cousin marriage. In addition, some Muslim groups living outside the Middle East, such as ...