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Eugh, incest - just wrong. Well, at least they didn't know - I wonder what their relationship is like now.
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Separated at birth British twins get married without knowing they're related!
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Eugh, incest - just wrong. Well, at least they didn't know - I wonder what their relationship is like now.
"Should I go and propose, get hitched and have kids with eleven toes and move to Alabama where that kind of thing is tolerated?" -- Weird Al
Where can you buy a birthday card that says;
"Happy Birthday Uncle Dad" ?
It initially came to light as a statement in the British House of Lords.
And I'm sure the marvelous gutter press we have in this country and searching for them but haven't found them yet.
"Happy Birthday Uncle Dad" ?
It initially came to light as a statement in the British House of Lords.
And I'm sure the marvelous gutter press we have in this country and searching for them but haven't found them yet.
Very good, very disturbing movie (especially at the end when he cuts out his tongue
). I love the scene in the hallway. And I wasn't talking about Oldboy anyway.
Missed out on this (I was banned for a few days ) but the way I see it. As long as they never had children there isn't a problem. You can't help who you fall in love with and as they grew up without ever knowing the other existed you can't say it is incest in the true sense of the word.
) but the way I see it. As long as they never had children there isn't a problem. You can't help who you fall in love with and as they grew up without ever knowing the other existed you can't say it is incest in the true sense of the word.Or in Somerset, even
"And are they as big as he is?"
"Who?"
"The mum and the sister?"
"Same person."
Oi, i'm from Somerset ...so you're offending my mum and sister! ...which is sure to make her mad (and she's pretty strong you know... 6th best badger fighter in the South West)
Identical twins could never have children together since they would be either both male or both female, their DNA is the closest that any two people who are capable of having children together can be, so that issue would still be there.
I knew I'd find a stereotype if I scrolled through all 3 pages of this thread eventually.
Please explain to me how identical twins could have children
Thats the point they are not identical twins. not the same DNA
Textbooks give that siblings share ~50% of their DNA with each other but depeding what happened during meiosis in the parents they can have anywhere between 0-100% of the same genes.
I have look at samples where siblings were more genetically different with each other than with the random control samples.
there were a couple so different that we could not say they were close related. until we got the mothers DNA to compare to.
And not to stereotype the UK or anything - but they do have a pretty inbred population. genetically speaking.
Or look at Iceland - everyone is genetically linked very closely.
Yeah, but more than likely, you have a relatively normal distribution of genetic similarity between siblings.
And as far as the UK or Iceland being inbred...I find it a near impossibility that the average genetic difference between unrelated individuals in the UK or Iceland is comparable to that between first-degree relations. Or even second or third degree...
But all of that is not even the point. The concern with producing offspring with close genetic relations has nothing to do with the vast majority of loci, that code for invariant genes or genes whose variations are prosaic. Rather, the problem is that if there are any alleles in the family that predispose to disease or reduce fitness, reproduction between relatives drastically increases the likelihood that they will appear in the children.
I'm tempted to think of Goldmember especially the part with Austin his list and the twins, ***-mi and ***-yu
That's very sweet of you to say. Might I return the compliment and say that your inbreds are very good looking too?
Actually, that's NOT the only issue. The original issue is about giving adopted children full-access to their birth records. Given the "health prospects" of children produced from inbreeding, this is why the two issues blend together. People shouldn't be required to have DNA tests before determining if they're related. --Or maybe they should? Personally I don't have a strong opinion on it. I do think it sucks to fall in love and marry someone, share the fact that you're both adopted, and never know that you're flirting with disaster.
~ CB
If they have children, the boys would look almost exactly like the father, while a girl would look almost exactly like the mother, right? If they have more than one boy, the boys would look very alike.
It'd be weird if their sons were gay and started dating each other. It would be like having sex with a mirror.
It'd be weird if their sons were gay and started dating each other. It would be like having sex with a mirror.
Oh, puhleeze.
sorry but true.
mtDNA and y chromosome studies show that more than 80% of UK people are descended from original group of hunter-gatherers that showed up on island after last ice age, with very little new dna contribution via immigration.
I could have picked a number of groups that are "inbred" but it was relevant to story.
Well... I am talking about THIS case. It was in the originally linked story. I think everyone finds the "incest" issue more interesting, but that was the topic of the original BBC story... the rights of adopted children. Check the first post.
~ CB
Ok start here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
There are a number of articles up on pubmed that go in detail about the haplotypes and probabilities.