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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I recall a prof in law school saying that the health reasons against incest, such as an increased probability of genetic defects, etc. were proven false. I have no cite for this and moreover have no knowledge as to whether this prof was married to his sister or not.
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There was an article/study released a couple of years ago that demonstrated that children of cousins were very unlikely to develope genetic defects. Study, IIRC, also said that they were still something like 7 times more likely than children of unrelated parents) to have birth defects, but that the odds were still sufficiently low that we shouldn't worry.
