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WesternManDotOrg 8 points ago +8 / -0

ARAB WORLD INBREEDING

Statistical research on cousin marriage in Arabic countries shows rates up to:

34% of all marriages in Algiers

46% in Bahrain

33% in Egypt

80% in Nubia (southern area in Egypt)

60% in Iraq

64% in Jordan

64% in Kuwait

42% in Lebanon

48% in Libya

47% in Mauritania

54% in Qatar

67% in Saudi Arabia

63% in Sudan

40% in Syria

39% in Tunisia

54% in the United Arabic Emirates

45% in Yemen

Source: Reproductive Health Journal, Issue 6, ‘Consanguinity and reproductive health among Arabs’, 2009, https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-4755-6-17

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WesternManDotOrg 7 points ago +7 / -0

“Saudi Arabia is a living genetics laboratory,” Dr. Stephen R. Schroeder, executive director of the Prince Salman Center for Disability Research, told the Times. “Here you can study 10 families to study genetic disorders, where you would need 10,000 families to study genetic disorders in the United States.”