(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.
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.