Should cousin marriage be banned? A new study has revealed children from marriages between first cousins might be facing more severe health problems than once thought.
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.
Recessive disorders - A genetic condition that can be passed down from parents to children. A recessive disorder requires a child to receive two copies of the gene in question, one from each parent.
Cystic fibrosis - A recessive genetic disorder caused by a mutation in genes. People with cystic fibrosis experience thick, sticky mucus building up in the lungs and digestive system.
Recessive gene - Genetic information that is unlikely to be passed down from a parent to a child, unless the other parent also passes on the same recessive gene.
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.
Conservative party - A British political party. Members are known as Tories.
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