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Imagine two identical twins born to a consanguineous couple—first cousins who share a significant portion of their DNA. Both twins inherit the exact same disease-causing recessive mutation from their parents.…

Imagine a library containing 20,000 books. Each book is a gene. In most libraries, a damaged page here or there rarely causes a problem because the second copy of the…

You have heard the statistic before. A consanguineous marriage—defined as a union between second cousins or closer—raises the risk of birth defects from approximately 2-3% to 4-6%. For generations, that was…

You've heard the warning a hundred times: marrying your cousin increases the risk of rare, devastating recessive disorders. So you did the responsible thing. You went for carrier screening. The…