The Abundance of Harmful Rare Homozygous Variants in Children of Consanguineous Parents

The children born of consanguineous union were found to have a higher incidence of recessive genetic diseases than the offspring of unrelated parents. The reason for this was predicted to be the presence of more deleterious rare homozygous genetic variants in the former compared to the latter. Howev...

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Main Author: Sankar Subramanian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-03-01
Series:Biology
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/14/3/310
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