(n.) Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, there is no certainty that both of Ainu and the people in Ueno derived from the same origin, or that genetic drift due to endogamy in this village took place.
(2) The calculated values of gamete and endogamy indices were indicative of intensive migration processes, weak isolation by distance, and minimal inbreeding.
(3) The high endogamy rate found among the grandparents' and among the parents of the probands living in the Albanian community, shows that this community is to a large extent reproductively isolated from the neighbouring populations, thus accounting for these differences.
(4) Belief in the hereditary causation of IDD tends to be high in societies where familial goiter is common and endogamy is high.
(5) However, this method is liable to potentially serious errors because ethnic subgroups within major racial categories exhibit genetic differences that are maintained by endogamy.
(6) The breakdown of isolation, as documented by the decrease in population size, endogamy, and inbreeding, is a recent feature (since 1960).
(7) The high endogamy was proved by the gipsy origin of male partners in 90% of couples.
(8) Several models that included high levels of gene flow among groups could not be distinguished, but the data are clearly incompatible with group endogamy and with high variance in male fitness.
(9) While history and some common surnames suggest endogamy in the past, the medical and serological findings, plus some additional surnames, indicate that the isolate has already been largely diluted or dissolved.
(10) These results indicate that total inbreeding from isonymy is a reliable indicator of isolation, showing temporal trends related to changes in endogamy.
(11) In order to evaluate determinants of first-cousin marriage, several predictive variables have been examined: parish ethnic composition (proportion of Swedish and Finnish speakers), husband's occupation (graded into 6 socioeconomic levels), geographic distance between spouses' premarital residences, population density, parish endogamy, and urban vs. rural residence.
(12) Most examinees were born in the same village as their parents (86.39%); only 6.33% of the parents migrated between villages on the island; and village endogamy is quite high for the past four generations (75%).
(13) Isonymy analysis of Habbani genealogies reveals a significant increase in lineage endogamy by the early twentieth century, suggesting that microdifferentiation of Habbani population genetic structure along the patrilineages was occurring.
(14) High level of endogamy of the urban sample tested is established, the total coefficient of inbreeding being 0.009856; grandparents of the probands appeared to be exclusively of rural origin.
(15) This population is strongly endogamous (only 4% of all marriages are contracted with neighbouring ethnic groups), and each massif shows high endogamy.
(16) In the case of religious endogamy, most groups have shown decreasing proportions of marriages.
(17) The endogamy percentage is high, greater in MC (80%) than in MNC (61%).
(18) This paper examines factors influencing endogamy in a Dogon population in Mali.
(19) It can be assumed that the specific ABO allele frequencies found in the above mentioned ethnic groups are connected with their different geographical origin as well as with their marked endogamy.
(20) In order to establish relationships among immigration, inbreeding, and age at marriage in urban and rural zones in Chile, and to formulate an endogamy index, ecclesiastical and civil data on consanguinity from 1865-1914 were analyzed, and a random mating deviation index was developed, with resulting values indicating deviation toward endogamy in both zones.
Exogamy
Definition:
(n.) The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of marriages shows that, in spite of its somewhat remote location, the valley cannot be considered an isolate, but that, on the contrary, exogamy is widely practised.
(2) These groups exhibit high mobility and exogamy rates and high fertility but relatively low mortality and variance in number of children per woman.
(3) Minimum genetic effect on the formation of diabetes mellitus concerns the group of reduced exogamy.
(4) Genealogies covering the three extant generations provided the data for a surname isonymy analysis to determine the amount of inbreeding prevalent, while the marital, birthplace and age at marriage data were used to ascertain the components of marital movement, i.e., marital distance, orientation of marital movement, spatial exogamy, and "diffusion".
(5) A study of the Kharkov population revealed the effect of parent exogamy for liability of the progeny to diabetes mellitus that was more pronounced in sons than in daughters.
(6) The degree of parents exogamy has no influence on daughters resistance to alcoholism and drug addiction.
(7) Exogamy tends to diminish with time among both types of union.
(8) The data obtained demonstrate a certain role of genetic factors in developmental acceleration displaying at a moderate degree of exogamy.
(9) A modification is suggested in the formula of Crow and Mange for the estimation of FIS to make it applicable to populations exhibiting clan exogamy.
(10) We report results of pedigree analyses; population and affected-family biochemical urine screening; estimation of inbreeding coefficient, of exogamy rate and of average marital distance and of calculation of the frequency of the AU allele, and of homozygotes and heterozygotes in this portion of the Trencín District.
(11) The reviewed traditional kindship system based on bilateral exogamy is an explanation.
(12) Within each cohort the overall exogamy rate was computed along with three estimates of gene flow based on marital migration: local migration (k), long-distance migration (m), and effective migration rate (me).
(13) Growth peculiarities were followed in children of pre-school and school age (Ukrainians from Dnepropetrovsk Region, Kumyks, and Avartses from Dagestan, Tadjiks, Usbeks and Kirghizes from Middle Asia) with a special reference to exogamy estimated both by the presence or absence of relationship between their parents and by the distance between their birthplaces denoted as 0, I and II degrees of exogamy (DE).
(14) 75% of gene flow via exogamy moved into the shahrestan from north-west and north-east and 12.4% from south-north provinces as a result of construction of roads and bridges.
(15) Demographically these groups are characterized by young age, high intertribal admixture, low non-Indian admixture, high exogamy but low marital distance and high inbreeding, high fertility but low variance in offspring number, and relatively low mortality.
(16) Data on exogamy and endogamy suggest that migration between the various populations has been at a level sufficient to prevent or correct any tendency to genetic diversification.
(17) Isonymy has been described in a North Indian Hindu Community, which shows surname exogamy.
(18) The genetic factors (consanguinity, exogamy) show more modest correlations than mesological factors.
(19) In type I diabetes mellitus, the maximum genetic effect concerns the group of moderate exogamy, in type II diabetes--the group of elevated exogamy.