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Why Does Inbreeding Cause Genetic Defects?

December 9, 2022

Technically, inbreeding doesn’t cause genetic disorders. What inbreeding in fact does is 1) restrict variation in the gene pool and 2) increase the likelihood of recessive alleles being expressed.

There are two types of genes: dominant and recessive. Dominant genes always actually affect your body. Recessive ones only show up if you receive them from both parents.

That being said you definitely have a ton of recessive genes that have no effect on your body because you only relieved them from one parent. Furthermore, your genes mutate, and those mutations either show up or they don’t. As such, you likely have some weird mutated genes that would be really bad if they were dominant, but they aren’t.

You will pass those genes to your kids, just like your parents passed their weird mutations to you.

The only people that will ever have those genes are people related to you.

If you have sex with a person not related to you, you’ll pass on your dad’s recessive gene that makes all your skin fall off and your partner will pass on her dominant gene that makes that not happen. If you have sex with your sister, you could both pass on the recessive skin fall of gene and now you’ve created a skinless baby

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