📚 Consanguineous, adjective. 🔉 /ˌkɒnsaŋˈɡwɪnɪəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to or denoting people descended from the same ancestor. ❗️ Examples: 1. Consanguineous marriages may give rise to recessive syndromes. 2. We use the patterns of homozygosity at multiple loci to distinguish between excess homozygosity caused by consanguineous mating and that due to undetected population subdivision. 3. It makes feasible the analysis of multilocus data observed on general pedigrees containing possibly consanguineous marriages and missing information. 4. Horizontal lines represent crosses, thick horizontal lines are consanguineous crosses, and vertical lines represent descendants from such matings. 5. Fully recessive mutations are maintained in higher frequencies than partially recessive ones and thus cause greater declines in fitness under consanguineous matings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic