There are more and more 'new' ideas and thoughts about genes and inbreeding than ever this century that state inbreeding is not necessarily bad... Of course like the following written by Brian Reeder they are speaking of flowers and chickens. My concern is how this thinking bleeds into the realm of human genetics.
"The majority of serious genetic disorders are recessive, which means that an individual must inherit two copies of the abnormal gene (one from each parent) for the disorder to be expressed.
It is much more likely that both parents will carry the same recessive gene if the parents are related. The risk of a serious disease or malformation in a child of such a union is about 1 in 20. However, among married first cousins, the risk increases to about 1 in 11. If the couple are first-degree relatives, the risk is 1 in 2.
Cultural taboos are only loosely related to risk. The marriage of double-first cousins is just as risky (from a genetic standpoint) as it is in the marriage of a half-sister and a half-brother. However, in most places, the former is legal and the latter is not." Brian Reeder
A youtube video of u2bheavenbound, a Christian-based news agency, of trans-human genetics. Trans-Human Genetics
- Goats that produce spider silk in their milk; BBC Goats with spider milk
- Mice that sing and tweet like birds, ostensibly so scientists can study the problem of the evolution of human language; Japan's Singing Mice
- The “super salmon”(salmon that likes to mate with brown trout); http://bit.ly/12PBHEt
- Banana vaccines (for Hepatitis B in this case, to sneak all sorts of vaccines into the population for testing); Banana Vaccines
- Phosphorus-friendly pigs (add less phosphorus in their manure); Enviropig
- Chickehumans laying eggs with cancer-fighting proteins? Paradox of Cancer Metastasis
- bovino-menschen, i.e., cows that make human milk Huffington Post - Health Living
- Scorpiocabbage, modified with the deadly venom of a scorpion to be an insect repellant (could the genes mutate into something toxic to humans?”) Venomous cabbage
- Xenotransplantation: organ growing and harvesting: human organs being grown in pigs that manufactured human blood; Genetically Engineered Pigs
- Supersoldier: US Army: Super Soldier
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