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PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. There really are problems with that article.
Sat Nov 30, 2019, 11:47 AM
Nov 2019

If Prince Albert had been a "carrier" of hemophilia, he would have had the disease. I don't believe it's possible for a man to be an asymptomatic carrier.

The consensus is that Queen Victoria had the misfortune to have had a mutation on one of her X chromosomes, all on her own. It started with her. There is absolutely no evidence that any of her ancestors had it.

As wnylib has noted, the article leads you to believe that inbreeding somehow causes diseases and mental illness. It doesn't. It just greatly increases the concentration of recessive genes in the population, allowing for a greatly expanded expression of those genes. Various groups like the Amish have that problem, because they almost never marry outside their own small communities, and certain rare diseases are astonishingly common.

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