More than 13,000 Britons are born out of illegal 'extreme inbreeding' | Daily Mail Online
More than 13,000 people in the UK have been born out of 'extreme inbreeding' and the illegal incestuous trysts of close relatives, study claims
- Study looked at the UK Biobank's genetic information of 456,414 individuals
- Researchers studied any unusually high prevalence of homozygosity in people
- This is an indicator that a person's parents are closely related to each other
- Found evidence of people whose parents are first- or second-degree relatives
- This includes children created when parents and their offspring have a child as well as children born from the intercourse of half-siblings
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