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Re:In Amish village, a rural doctor sees the rarest diseases... by sateesh on Saturday November 30, 2019 @09:12AM (#21670022)
* IIRC it's much less common in Hindu tradition (where the pattern was larger caste groups instead).

In Hindu families too it was not that uncommon at all, though this trend has declined in the current generation marriages.

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Re:In Amish village, a rural doctor sees the rarest diseases... by iguy on Saturday November 30, 2019 @09:19AM (#21670046)
Can you say where this is from? TIL that there's a strong N/S pattern, wikipedia says 0.1 in Delhi in 1980, but an astonishing 38% in TN.
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Re:In Amish village, a rural doctor sees the rarest diseases... by sateesh on Saturday November 30, 2019 @09:47AM (#21670177)
My observation is from southern part of India (more specifically of Karnataka) which also ranks higher in the same cousin marriage (as per wikipedia).
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