Should cousin marriage be banned? Children born to first cousins face a higher risk of health problems. But some say a marriage ban is not the answer.
The crisis doctors don’t talk about
Relative issue: In the UK, you cannot marry your parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles or nephews and nieces — but you are still allowed to marry your first cousin. Glossary
Queen Victoria - The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901. Her reign is known as the Victorian era.
Albert Einstein - A German-born physicist, whose work in the early 20th Century revolutionised scientific understanding of the world.
Charles Darwin - His book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, is the founding work of evolutionary biology.
First cousins - The children of a set of siblings. First cousins share a pair of grandparents.
MP - Member of Parliament. There are 650 MPs representing people in different areas of the UK.
Ethnic minority - People from racial or ethnic groups who do not belong to the most common group in a society.
Pakistanis - People from Pakistan, a South Asian country with a population of more than 240 million. More than 96% of the population is Muslim.
Genes - Sections of DNA strands that act as a kind of instruction manual for a human being. There is still a great deal we do not understand about how they work.
Bradford - A city in northern England, in West Yorkshire. It has a population of more than half a million. 32% of the population identifies as Asian or British Asian.
Traditions - A way of doing something or a set of ideas that has been happening for many years.
Genetic disorders - A health problem caused by a mutation or abnormality in your genes. Some genetic disorders are inherited from your parents, while other mutations may happen randomly.