{"id":679,"date":"2024-10-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=679"},"modified":"2024-10-06T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T10:00:00","slug":"88-different-types-of-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"88- Different Types of Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-679-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/85957262\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-3-26%2Fcb2644a6-724b-afbc-3986-e9013cda88e3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/85957262\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-3-26%2Fcb2644a6-724b-afbc-3986-e9013cda88e3.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/85957262\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-3-26%2Fcb2644a6-724b-afbc-3986-e9013cda88e3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>First cousins, second cousins, fourth cousins three times removed&#8230; What&#039;s the difference? And if all three billion letters of your genetic code were unique, how distant a relation would you have to have before the two of you didn&#039;t share any of these original letters anymore? This scenario has some assumptions, but we&#039;ll use it to explore how large the human genome is!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Berger, B. M. (1960), How Long Is a Generation? The British Journal of Sociology 11(1): 10-23.<\/li>\n<li>Bistritzer, T., Fried, K., Lahat, E., Dvir, M. and Goldberg, M. (1993), Congenital contractual arachnodactyly in two double second cousins: possible homozygosity. Clinical Genetics 44: 15-19. (for second cousins, nothing except abstract)<\/li>\n<li>Matsamura, S. and Forster, P. (2008), Generation time and effective population size in Polar Eskimos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275: 1501-1508.<\/li>\n<li>McDermott, M., Genealogy Explained (2022, updated 2024), What are Double First Cousins (online) (Accessed 24\/04\/2024).<\/li>\n<li>Skipper, M. (2012), User\u2019s guide to the human genome. Nature Reviews Genetics 13: 678.<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Ancestry (date unknown), What is a second, third, or fourth cousin- or a cousin once removed? (online) (Accessed 24\/04\/2024).<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Family tree of English monarchs (online) (Accessed 24\/04\/2024).<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Family tree of the British royal family (online) (Accessed 24\/04\/2024).<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, 23 and Me (date unknown), Average Percent DNA Shared Between Relatives (online) (Accessed 24\/04\/2024).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First cousins, second cousins, fourth cousins three times removed&#8230; What&#039;s the difference? And if all three billion letters of your genetic code were unique, how distant a relation would you have to have before the two of you didn&#039;t share any of these original letters anymore? This scenario has some assumptions, but we&#039;ll use it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;88- Different Types of Cousin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}