(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.
Intermarriage
Definition:
(n.) Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many Iraqis grew up in households where it was rude to refer to people's sectarian identity, and where intermarriage created large families of mixed religious practice.
(2) Indeed, there is nothing more the Romany like to do than fight among themselves over who is the purest Gypsy, but one only needs to take a glance at Britain's Romany community to realise there has undoubtedly been a great deal of intermarriage.
(3) The computation of the coefficient of inbreeding of these subjects showed that repeated intermarriages increased the coefficient of kinship of the propositus and her husband to 0.116 (if unknown women of the ancestry were assumed to be different for each child) through 0,1362 (if unknown women of the ancestry were assumed to be the same for sibs).
(4) There is less overt homophobia, sexism or racism (and much more racial intermarriage) in Britain than 30 years ago and racial discrimination is the most politically sensitive form of unfairness.
(5) They relied on the generosity of Manusians and, eventually, intermarriage to get access to gardens and fisheries to sustain themselves and their families.
(6) There was intermarriage among numerous family members.
(7) They have full access to Syrian schools and universities on the same basis as citizens … And because their numbers are tiny compared to the general Syrian population (less than 2%), the refugees were never perceived as a threat, and the degree of integration between Palestinians and Syrians – through work, education, and intermarriage – has no parallel in the Arab world.” For Yarmouk to become a spectacle of suffering far worse than Gaza marked an indelible stain on Bashar al-Assad When I first visited Yarmouk in March 2003, it was a hotbed of anger towards the American invasion of Iraq, which had just began.
(8) The pattern of intermarriage produces from generation to generation an increasing number of children with such abnormalities.
(9) "Intermarriage as an act of agression against the parents is in my opinion as likely as intermarriage an an act of social justice," he writes.
(10) The absence of intermarriage between these two subpopulations indicates genetic differences distinguish them.
(11) The combination of anomalies described in each affected member is consistent with Roberts syndrome and the prevalence of intermarriage in this kindred could suggest an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance.
(12) An offspring resulting from intermarriage between the two families is genotypically homozygous for this variant.
(13) I live in downtown Toronto, in one of the most liberal neighborhoods in one of the most open cities in the world, where multiculturalism is the dominant civic value and the inert virtue of tolerance is the most prominent inheritance of the British empire, so if you squint you can pretend the ancient categories are dissipating into a haze of enlightenment and intermarriage.
(14) Lucie laughs off the idea that she would ever marry a Hutu, for all the talk of intermarriage as evidence of reconciliation.
(15) Despite widespread intermarriage between races in New Zealand there was, in nearly all systems tested, a significant difference in the frequency of genetic markers.
(16) The patient's history disclosed a family intermarriage in his grandparents.
(17) In a group of 203 mainly severely mentally retarded children born 1975-1985, we found the etiology to be related to two main factors: (1) sequele from high perinatal morbidity or meningitis in infancy leading to a combination of severe mental retardation and cerebral palsy; (2) a high degree of intermarriage and a high frequency of retarded siblings indicating that genetic causes of MR are common.
(18) Individuals from families where there had been no intermarriage with non-Icelandic individuals were eligible.
(19) A Turkish family with frequent intermarriages is described, in which two siblings were born with persistent forms of congenital hypothyroidism, in the elder child concomitant with absent radioactive thyroid imaging.
(20) The Italo-Greek ethnolinguistic minority, living in thirteen villages of southern Italy, marry largely amongst themselves but there are some intermarriages with native Italians.