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2010-04-01 Arabia

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Posted by Swanimote 2010-04-01 10:27|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 An explanation for widespread craziness? Maybe.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-01 12:12|| 2010-04-01 12:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Swanimote, I completely disagree with your comment and find it outrageous in its claim.

Its way more than 50%.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-04-01 13:00|| 2010-04-01 13:00|| Front Page Top

#3 What this article claims is 0.7% of live births have visible defects. However,

The Times reports that fifty-five per cent of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins and, in Bradford [an immigrant community], the figure rises to 75 per cent. One-third of children with recessive disorders are British Pakistanis, but they only account for three per cent of UK births.

link And from an earlier report on the same site,

This is the most likely explanation for the observation that, in some sections of the British Pakistani population, the risk of death or serious disability in children may be as high as 10 per cent.

I suspect the 10% number is a bit low, given the millenia that this population has practiced close-cousin marriage -- the metaphor of a pole-like family tree I used a few days ago was deliberately chosen -- but I haven't the knowledge to back up my belief.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-01 13:30|| 2010-04-01 13:30|| Front Page Top

Posted by gorb 2010-04-01 14:16|| 2010-04-01 14:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I have seen the same problems with marriage between relatives in some Alaskan rural villages. Birth defects and other problems related to this phenomenon show up more commonly in the population. With increased mobility, this is not as much an issue as it was not too many decades ago.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-04-01 15:40|| 2010-04-01 15:40|| Front Page Top

#6 100 years ago the physically and mentally handicapped would often die young, before propagating. Now, not so much.

Posted by tipover 2010-04-01 16:16|| 2010-04-01 16:16|| Front Page Top

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