If 1st cousins keep mating generation after generation ...
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Anonymous
Ha ha! PP here. I DO have a STEM degree AND I have worked in Saudi Arabia. The point is that the situation is different in Saudi and probably because what you said above (bold) is not so rare in that country (due to the high levels of inbreeding). Look it up before you make judge-y comments! |
TwistdMike
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Problem is... Even after the divorce, you're still related...
"Yes Bubba, she is still your sister" 
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Anonymous
Unclear Iranian infertility is from intermarriage. Iran has the highest rate of chlamydia in the world. |
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Something I have wondered about. If two totally unrelated people marry, but one spouse comes from a long line of double first cousin and first cousin marriages, are the children more susceptible to inherited conditions than you would otherwise find?
It may be just coincidence, but DH is the product of a double first cousin marriage, as were both his parents. Before that there were first cousin marriages, but don't know if they were double or not. Half the children in his family have a rare inherited disorder. Among our own children we have epilepsy--otherwise not in either family, as well as two autoimmune disorders known to be inherited. For one we don't know of any precedent, but the other also occurred in one of his double first cousins. |
Anonymous
True, but I was pointing out that whether the first person that has the de novo mutation is part of a long line of cousins is irrelevant. |
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Birth defects and huge rates of learning disabilitys; not to mention it is the poorest place in the US with fewer English speakers than a Mexican border town, just about 40 minutes from Manhattan lies a thundering horde of cousin fuckers....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York |
Anonymous
Hilarious!!
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Anonymous
Persians don't actually marry cousins very often, and they have fewer children, making cousin marriage even less possible. Unlike Saudi, where first cousins can easily number 50+, and the choices are much greater. |
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Fragile X is x-linked, not recessive. It also gets worse as the mutation is passed from generation to generation (the term for this is anticipation). Females are generally unaffected because they have two copies of the X chromosome. But it is not a classic recessive disease, which requires inheritance of two mutated copies of the gene to cause disease. Affected males have one X chromosome that carries the mutation. |
Anonymous
Most de novo mutations end in miscarriage. The majority of genetic defects are inherited. One round of cousins reproducing won't increase the odds of disease but several generations of cousin marriages will cause problems in the offspring. |
Anonymous
It's not illegal enough. Religion allows it. |
Anonymous
Other than latent recessive gene issues, what does inbreeding repeatedly do to the brains of the offspring and consequently population? I grew up thinking that inbreeding made people stupid and that was before I learned that cultures still do that in the world, especially Amish & Muslims. |
Anonymous
Yes, there was a story on NPR a couple days ago and one of the women was a British Pakistani who was bethrothed to her 1st cousin when she was born. Their mothers promised their babies to the other mother's child for marriage. She "escaped" her fate when her mother died and came to America to study. She is one of the creator's (with an Indian woman) of a tv show here in America. |
Anonymous
Why are the kids incapacitated their whole lives? Because they don't get any attention from their parents? |
Anonymous
OP here. No, I am not mating with my 1st cousin and disgusted by the thought that it still occurs in the 21st century. I'm concerned with regions of the world where this does occur as a matter of life and culture and often those regions are warring. |