Most modern societies have legal or social restrictions on closely consanguineous marriages.

The mutations affecting reelin in human are usually associated with consanguineous marriage.

The Dharhi are strictly endogamous, and practice consanguineous marriages.

It is due to consanguineous marriage or marriages between close relatives practiced in the community.

This meant determining how closely the prospective couple were related, as the Church strongly disapproved of consanguineous marriages.

For example, in humans, consanguineous marriages lead to children with increased heart malformations and increased mortality.

Most modern societies have laws regarding incest or social restrictions on closely consanguineous marriages.

A distinctive feature of their marriage is that consanguineous marriages take place.

Anthropologist Mukul Hazra found that consanguineous marriage was common in this region earlier.

In the first case Eleanor gave a judicial decision condemning consanguineous marriages - of which she had made two.