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BioNews Comment articles written by Dr Alison Shaw:
| Cousin marriages in the UK: what are the genetic risks? |
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| 22 June 2008 - by Dr Alison Shaw |
| Marriage between relatives such as first cousins increases the risk in children not of general birth defects and genetic problems of all kinds but of what geneticists call 'recessive' conditions: those caused by inheriting two copies of a gene each of which carries a mutation. It seems we may each... [Read More] |