Consanguinity and marriage systems in the Jewish community

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CONSANGUINITY AMONG JEWS - JewishEncyclopedia.com

CONSANGUINITY AMONG JEWS: Tweet. Owing to their dispersion among populations professing creed different from their own, Jews have married ear relatives more frequently than the rest of the world. The marriage of first cousins and even of uncle and niece is quite legal and usual among them (see Marriage).
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The consanguinity (mathematical relationship) between any two persons is calculated from their relationship links. For example, between brothers and sisters, this number is 25%, which represents a close relationship. Between first cousins, this number is 6.25%. The different combinations of relationship links between any two people...


Consanguinity and marriage systems in the Jewish community ...

Robert Roger Lebel and John M. Opitz, Consanguinity studies in Wisconsin I: Secular trends in consanguineous marriage, 1843–1981, American Journal of Medical Genetics, 15, 4, (543-560), (2005).

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1957.tb01408.x
 
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