Evidence suggests inbreeding heightens the risk of birth defects and developmental delays, such as learning and speech ...

Recently, the Allahabad High Court has held that a mother-in-law can file a case against her daughter-in-law or any other person, as being harassed or tortured would bring her under the purview ...

A more important reason for prohibition is the social harm, particularly to women often coerced into first cousin consanguineous marriage.” The American Economic Association reported in a study ...

The primary concern with cousin marriage is the higher likelihood of recessive genetic disorder. Every person carries some ...

A stitch in time saves nine. The true meaning of this saying would be best understood by the hapless parents of children with ...

A. Persons may be related in four ways. When they are related by blood their relationship is called consanguinity; when they are related by marriage it is called affinity; when they are related by ...

A GREAT number of abnormal aminoacidurias have now been described, 1 and investigation of such patients has provided better insight into normal human biology. We believe that the following report ...