If you only reproduce with those of your own race, religion etc and you limit yourself to a small area your chance of being an inbred is significantly higher than if you reach out and travel. Convinced 80% of people in merrick are inbreds. LOL Inbreeding can occur just because a small population has been isolated during some time, so that all breeding individuals became genetically related. It can also occur in a large population if individuals tend to mate with their relatives, instead of mating at random. Inbreeding between family members rarely creates physical deformities. More often the case is behavioral/emotional problems. Inbreeding within a population, such as isloated, rural groups, causes problems also. One of the negative consequences of inbreeding is the development of autosomal recessive disorders by the inbred organisms. In genetics, an allele is a recessive gene that causes detectible characteristics, also known as a phenotype. Offspring that are the product of inbreeding may carry two copies of the same allele from their closely related parents. This cause a recessive genetic trait to become manifest in the offspring. Examples of recessive traits that may become apparent include anemia, sickle-cell, and cystic fibrosis diseases.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:50:47 +0000