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To: Lane3 who wrote (111084)4/25/2005 3:52:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793868
 
Yet a recent study suggested that though the relative risk of birth defects is higher among the offspring of first and second cousins, the absolute risk remains small in societies where inbreeding is rare

What about where it isn't rare? I read somewhere that over 50% of marriages in the Arab world are between first or second cousins. Has anybody ever done a comparative study of the rate of genetic abnormalities?
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