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2008-12-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Marriage between cousins is fine, say scientists

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Posted by john frum 2008-12-28 15:58|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 are they trying too appease the muslims already

Posted by rabid whitetail 2008-12-28 16:27|| 2008-12-28 16:27|| Front Page Top

#2 No, Kennedys.

Posted by ed 2008-12-28 16:40|| 2008-12-28 16:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Were we in danger of running out of Kennedys?

Posted by Formerly Dan 2008-12-28 16:44|| 2008-12-28 16:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Better check the lineage of these UoM scientists, or soon they'll end up like Berkeley.

Posted by gorb 2008-12-28 17:20|| 2008-12-28 17:20|| Front Page Top

#5 1st cousin marriages actually decrease genetic defects in the long term (over tens of generations), because the defects are expressed, and hence eliminated from the gene pool, sooner.

Posted by phil_b 2008-12-28 18:07|| 2008-12-28 18:07|| Front Page Top

#6 That assumes the defects are expressed prior to having children and are seen as disqualifying for having children. Neither is necessarily true.

Posted by lotp 2008-12-28 18:39|| 2008-12-28 18:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Now they tell me.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-12-28 19:32|| 2008-12-28 19:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Uh, not exactly, phil_b. I would think that the spectacular results of the various royal family branches in Europe would prove you wrong on that account. Hemophilia wasn't the only thing wrong with that brood.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-12-28 20:14|| 2008-12-28 20:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Can't help but notice that Doc here says that all countries should ease these laws "especially in America".

Ima spot me a 'Blame America Firster'. My hunch does, anyway.

Master! Master!

Wrong hunch...

Dated a girl that went to college there one time...

Master! Master!

Posted by Mike N. 2008-12-28 20:21|| 2008-12-28 20:21|| Front Page Top

#10 I concur with Cornsilk Blondie. The first cousin marriage might work if the bloodline is "clean and healthy" in the first place. If not, it reinforces the problems that exist in that lineage. And there can be a lot of problems now that babies with genetic problems survive and live to procreate due to modern medicine and technology.

Sorry; not PC, just a statement of fact.

Posted by tipover 2008-12-28 20:30|| 2008-12-28 20:30|| Front Page Top

#11 CS, the relevant question is what was the survival rate of the offspring of those carrying the haemophilia gene and who married fist cousins, versus those who didn't marry first cousins.

Note, it's not the number who survived. Offspring of royalty had many survival advantages over the hoipolloi, which would have made the number surviving relatively high.

Posted by phil_b 2008-12-28 23:29|| 2008-12-28 23:29|| Front Page Top

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