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You'll Have More Kids by Marrying Your Cousin We know that marrying your first degree cousin is not good. Inbreeding or consanguinity (marriage between close relatives, like first degree cousins) increases the risk for negative mutations to appear in double sets and manifest in children, in a proportion of 25 % (which, in human probability, may mean that all the... 8 February 2008 14:06 GMT Marrying Your Cousin Increases More Than Twice the Death Risk for Your Children Is your cousin hot? In a Bedouin society, marrying him/her would be just the common thing to do. But we know that inbreeding is a great risk factor for genetic illnesses. The most varied our genes, the healthier we are. A new research checked how inbreeding affects the children's survival rate. The new research ... 26 September 2007 06:08 GMT