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Originally posted by jade_dragon
My x went to switzerland to visit family and her uncle was trying to set her up with her cousin, then I learned that in western europe that is not uncommon. I guess that has changed now since I see some of our European friends here said no.
Anyone know if the info about genetic flaws being more prominant in crosses like this true, been out of the loop on genetics for a year or two now.
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It's not common over here at all. On the other side of my family, two cousins of mine are living together (maybe married?) and it's a real scandal.
The stuff about higher chances of genetic defects is only partly true. Inbreeding increases the homozygocity in a population, thus increasing chances of birth defects.
However, on single occurrances within a population the effect is really quite small even with siblings, and with cousins the effect is *really* small.