Inbreeding: what are the consequences for health?

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What are the consequences of inbreeding on children?

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

Inbreeding is defined by the fact that two individuals, having a fairly close relationship, reproduce between them and obtain descendants.

Consanguinity will be more or less strong depending on the degree of kinship (union between a brother and a sister, between an uncle and a niece, cousins, etc.).

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How can this have consequences for the child born of this union?

How to explain the increased risk of mortality in the event of consanguinity?

• Prof. Arnold Munnich,

  President of the

  Imagine Foundation

  , pediatrician and geneticist at

  the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital AP-HP

  and at

  the Imagine Institute

• André Langaney

  , specialist in the genetics of human populations, honorary professor in the

  Department of Genetics and Evolution at the University of Geneva

  .

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