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To: Slings and Arrows

A Czechoslovakian study on incest showed that children born to first-degree related parents (siblings, parent - child) were 40 to 50 percent more likely to have severe genetic birth defects (hemophilia, congenital organ failure, congenital blindness, etc.)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201210/the-problem-incest


70 posted on 03/20/2015 4:39:02 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Morpheus2009
Those studies on incest pertain only to genetic incest, don't they?

If this was a donated egg, then Mom would be the "oven" but it wouldn't be her "bun" genetically speaking, right?

But, I wonder if the genes of the surrogate mother don't somehow "seep" into the fetus. I mean, she has to have some sort of hookup to feed it, right?

I suppose the scientists say "no" but it seems odd that it doesn't.

71 posted on 03/20/2015 4:52:17 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: Morpheus2009; TontoKowalski

Meet the poster boy for inbreeding.

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/14/how-inbreeding-killed-off-a-line-of-kings/


75 posted on 03/20/2015 3:54:27 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Just Friends" - http://youtu.be/rznoQbzlO2s [Warning: NSFW])
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