Consanguinity, the Glossary

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1. 62 relations: Affinity (Catholic canon law), Ahnentafel, Allele, Amhara people, Ataxia, Atresia, Avunculate marriage, Ayurveda, Canon law of the Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Catholic Encyclopedia, Coefficient of relationship, Consanguine marriage, Cousin marriage, Declaration of nullity, Dispensation (Catholic canon law), Dominance (genetics), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Endogamy, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fitness (biology), Fourth Council of the Lateran, Generation, Genetic counseling, Genome, Gotra, Greek Orthodox Church, Hepatitis, Human sexual activity, Hypercholesterolemia, Inbreeding, Inbreeding depression, Incest, Inheritance, Intestacy, Kinship, Kuwait, Latin, Lebanon, Legality of incest, Manusmriti, Meiosis, Minority group, Muhammad, Mutation, Myotonic dystrophy, Nepotism, Pathogen, Quran, ... Expand index (12 more) »

2. Catholic matrimonial canon law
3. Endogamy

Affinity (Catholic canon law)

In Catholic canon law, affinity is an impediment to marriage of a couple due to the relationship which either party has as a result of a kinship relationship created by another marriage or as a result of extramarital intercourse. Consanguinity and affinity (Catholic canon law) are Catholic matrimonial canon law.

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Ahnentafel

An ahnentafel (German for "ancestor table") or ahnenreihe ("ancestor series") is a genealogical numbering system for listing a person's direct ancestors in a fixed sequence of ascent.

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Allele

An allele, or allelomorph, is a variant of the sequence of nucleotides at a particular location, or locus, on a DNA molecule.

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Amhara people

Amharas (Āmara; ʾÄməḥära) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group which is indigenous to Ethiopia, traditionally inhabiting parts of the northwest Highlands of Ethiopia, particularly inhabiting the Amhara Region.

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Ataxia

Ataxia (from Greek α- + -τάξις.

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Atresia

Atresia is a condition in which an orifice or passage in the body is (usually abnormally) closed or absent.

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Avunculate marriage

An avunculate marriage is a marriage with a parent's sibling or with one's sibling's child—i.e., between an uncle or aunt and their niece or nephew. Consanguinity and avunculate marriage are Endogamy and incest.

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Ayurveda

Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.

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Canon law of the Catholic Church

The canon law of the Catholic Church is "how the Church organizes and governs herself".

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States designed to serve the Catholic Church.

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Coefficient of relationship

The coefficient of relationship is a measure of the degree of consanguinity (or biological relationship) between two individuals. Consanguinity and coefficient of relationship are incest and kinship and descent.

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Consanguine marriage

Consanguine marriage is marriage between individuals who are closely related. Consanguinity and Consanguine marriage are Endogamy, incest and medical genetics.

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Cousin marriage

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). Consanguinity and cousin marriage are Endogamy and incest.

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Declaration of nullity

In the Catholic Church, a declaration of nullity, commonly called an annulment and less commonly a decree of nullity, and in some cases, a Catholic divorce, is an ecclesiastical tribunal determination and judgment that a marriage was invalidly contracted or, less frequently, a judgment that ordination was invalidly conferred. Consanguinity and declaration of nullity are Catholic matrimonial canon law.

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Dispensation (Catholic canon law)

In the jurisprudence of the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of law in certain cases. Consanguinity and dispensation (Catholic canon law) are Catholic matrimonial canon law.

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Dominance (genetics)

In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome.

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Encyclopaedia Aethiopica

The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (EAe) is a basic English-language encyclopaedia for Ethiopian and Eritrean studies.

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Endogamy

Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships. Consanguinity and Endogamy are incest and kinship and descent.

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Eritrea

Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Fitness (biology)

Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.

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Fourth Council of the Lateran

The Fourth Council of the Lateran or Lateran IV was convoked by Pope Innocent III in April 1213 and opened at the Lateran Palace in Rome on 11 November 1215.

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Generation

A generation is all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.

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Genetic counseling

Genetic counseling is the process of investigating individuals and families affected by or at risk of genetic disorders to help them understand and adapt to the medical, psychological and familial implications of genetic contributions to disease. Consanguinity and genetic counseling are medical genetics.

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Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.

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Gotra

In Hindu culture, the term gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) is considered to be equivalent to lineage.

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Greek Orthodox Church

Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Hepatitis

Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue.

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Human sexual activity

Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.

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Hypercholesterolemia

Hypercholesterolemia, also called high cholesterol, is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood.

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Inbreeding

Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically. Consanguinity and Inbreeding are incest and kinship and descent.

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Inbreeding depression

Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness that has the potential to result from inbreeding (the breeding of related individuals). Consanguinity and inbreeding depression are incest.

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Incest

Incest is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. Consanguinity and Inheritance are kinship and descent.

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Intestacy

Intestacy is the condition of the estate of a person who dies without having in force a valid will or other binding declaration.

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Kinship

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Consanguinity and kinship are kinship and descent.

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Kuwait

Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Legality of incest

Laws regarding incest (i.e. sexual activity between family members or close relatives) vary considerably between jurisdictions, and depend on the type of sexual activity and the nature of the family relationship of the parties involved, as well as the age and sex of the parties. Consanguinity and Legality of incest are incest.

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Manusmriti

The Manusmṛti (मनुस्मृति), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many of Hinduism.

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Meiosis

Meiosis ((since it is a reductional division) is a special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually-reproducing organisms that produces the gametes, the sperm or egg cells. It involves two rounds of division that ultimately result in four cells, each with only one copy of each chromosome (haploid).

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Minority group

The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Mutation

In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA.

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Myotonic dystrophy

Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a type of muscular dystrophy, a group of genetic disorders that cause progressive muscle loss and weakness.

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Nepotism

Nepotism is the act of granting an advantage, privilege, or position to relatives or friends in an occupation or field.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables, to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Taboo

A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.

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The American Naturalist

The American Naturalist is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society of Naturalists, whose purpose is "to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences." It was established in 1867 and is published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Tigrayans

Tigrayans (ተጋሩ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia.

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Tigrinya people

The Tigrinya people (ትግርኛ, ብሄረ ትግርኛ), also known as the Biher-Tigrinya or Kebessa, are an ethnic group native to Eritrea.

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Tradition

A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Tyrosinemia

Tyrosinemia or tyrosinaemia is an error of metabolism, usually inborn, in which the body cannot effectively break down the amino acid tyrosine.

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Uniparental disomy

Uniparental disomy (UPD) occurs when a person receives two copies of a chromosome, or of part of a chromosome, from one parent and no copy from the other.

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Zaynab bint Jahsh

Zaynab bint Jaḥsh (زينب بنت جحش), was the first cousin and the seventh wife of Muhammad and therefore, considered by Muslims to be a Mother of the Believers.

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Zygosity

Zygosity (the noun, zygote, is from the Greek "yoked," from "yoke") is the degree to which both copies of a chromosome or gene have the same genetic sequence.

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See also

Catholic matrimonial canon law

• Affinity (Catholic canon law)
• Annulment
• Banns of marriage
• Clandestinity (Catholic canon law)
• Consanguinity
• Declaration of nullity
• Dignitas connubii
• Disparity of cult
• Dispensation (Catholic canon law)
• Impediment (Catholic canon law)
• Ligamen
• Matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis
• Natural marriage
• Ne Temere
• Omnium in mentem
• Parish register
• Pauline privilege
• Petrine privilege
• Public propriety
• Putative marriage
• Ratum sed non consummatum
• Roman Rota
• Tametsi
• Validation of marriage
• Vetitum

Endogamy

• Article 809 of the Korean Civil Code
• Avunculate marriage
• Consanguine marriage
• Consanguinity
• Cousin marriage
• Endogamy
• Homogamy (sociology)
• Prohibited degree of kinship
• Sologamy

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consanguinity

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, Roman law, Saudi Arabia, Taboo, The American Naturalist, Tigrayans, Tigrinya people, Tradition, Tuberculosis, Tyrosinemia, Uniparental disomy, Zaynab bint Jahsh, Zygosity.