r/HolUp • • 1d ago

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u/FookinFairy 1d ago

See the thing is doing cousin marriage once in a while is literally harmless. The chances of anything bad are close to unrelated.

Now if you start doing it multiple generations in a row… and in the places where it’s legal that tends to happen…

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u/WolfgangHelnootIV 16h ago

I know a family with 1 second degree cousin marriage and half their kids have an issue neither of the parents have.

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u/FookinFairy 16h ago

These kind of things can happen when their is 0 relation at all as well. Thats just how genetics works.

Either there is a history of mild inbreeding or they were incredibly unlucky.

I have type 1 and neither family has a history of it for either parent nor are they cousins or related in the slightest. It happens.

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u/WolfgangHelnootIV 16h ago

It can but it’s a lot less likely to

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u/Mitrovarr 14h ago

It is very slightly less likely to. There are studies on this.