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Incest anime.

First cousin marriage isn't illegal in Japan? That's disgusting. Why bother even preventing intra-family marriage at all then if they make no restrictions on relationships that close to your existing gene pool?

And cousin incest isn't historically uncommon but it's still disgusting and as bad as going for direct relations. Your genes are pretty close until you get into third or fourth cousins. In Canada (and I think the States) the closest you can marry is fifth cousin but by that loose a link the actual risks are probably about as high as your kid becoming handicapped by the environment rather than genetics.

That's a more than 50% increase in the risk of genetic disorder.

What the authors were looking for is the additional risk of significant birth defects (mental retardation or genetic disorders) -- or risk that is more than that faced by the general population of couples. For example, for couples, if the base (general population) risk of genetic conditions is 5 percent, it's the additional risk that is important for consanguineous couples to know.

Although they emphasize that it's not possible to come up with one number for all populations of consanguineous couples, the authors estimate the additional risk to range from 1.7 to 2.8 percent for first cousin unions. From her experience in counseling, Bennett believes these numbers are far lower than most people's perception of the risk.

That's significant.

blind_assassin wrote:

That's a more than 50% increase in the risk of genetic disorder.

Gawd, have you read the article or not?

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What the authors were looking for is the additional risk of significant birth defects (mental retardation or genetic disorders) -- or risk that is more than that faced by the general population of couples. For example, for couples, if the base (general population) risk of genetic conditions is 5 percent, it's the additional risk that is important for consanguineous couples to know. Although they emphasize that it's not possible to come up with one number for all populations of consanguineous couples, the authors estimate the additional risk to range from 1.7 to 2.8 percent for first cousin unions. From her experience in counseling, Bennett believes these numbers are far lower than most people's perception of the risk.

Do you know what "additional" means? If those underlines are not enough for you, let me translate them into numbers. Take the example in the first paragraph: if the base (general population) risk of genetic conditions is 5 percent, then the risk for first cousin unions ranges from 5.085 to 5.14 percent. Got it?

blind_assassin wrote:

That's significant.

Don't use the word "significant" if you don't know what χ2 and Student's t-test are.

dormcat wrote:

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Ugh, now I remember why I stopped posting here for so long. You and Abunai are such conceited, obtrusive ass-holes that even brushing across either of you take away even the boredom numbing effect of this forum.