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To: Carolyn who wrote (336637)11/30/2009 5:47:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 793964
 
As far as I can tell from what geneticists say, occasional cousin marriage is not terribly risky. The problems tend to accumulate when families do it generation after generation. When two cousins who each descend from long lines of cousin marriages marry, the degree of consanguinuity is much higher.