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In order to investigate the hypothesis that the heritable component of late onset diseases includes a major class of deleterious recessive alleles, 9 we recently studied the effects of inbreeding on blood pressure among 2760 adult individuals from 25 villages in a Dalmatian island isolate.
22 gru 2022 · Among those people whose parents were related, the researchers picked out typical signs of human inbreeding, such as a few common health issues. Inbred children commonly displayed decreased cognitive abilities and muscular function, reduced height and lung function, and are at greater risk from diseases in general, they found.
6 wrz 2019 · Genomic analysis has provided a new way of investigating a tricky topic: the prevalence of extreme inbreeding in humans. Cultural and religious taboos around inbreeding make its frequency ...
8 gru 2021 · Very preterm infants are at increased risk of adverse outcomes in early childhood. We assessed whether delayed clamping of the umbilical cord reduces mortality or major disability at 2 years in the APTS Childhood Follow Up Study.
19 lis 2006 · SEABROOK: One family in the story had three healthy children and four children with serious problems. How does that happen?
Inbreeding – the production of offspring from parents who are genetically close together – can lead to health problems. This is because there’s an increased risk of the offspring having a ‘recessive’ genetic disease.
14 wrz 2019 · Here, I compared two personality traits, boldness and tendency to explore, of male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) from first‐generation inbred and outbred treatments. Boldness in guppies is associated with increased sexual attractiveness and is thus expected to affect fitness.
