What if a brother and sister have a child together?

Siblings share about 50% of their DNA, which means that the child produced from such a relationship has a higher risk of inheriting two copies of the same harmful gene. This can result in various genetic disorders and developmental problems, including birth defects, mental retardation, and other serious health issues.

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What happens if a brother and sister have kids?

The risk for passing down a genetic disease is much higher for siblings than first cousins. To be more specific, two siblings who have kids together have a higher chance of passing on a recessive disease to their kids.

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Can biological siblings have children together?

Siblings CAN have children together (meaning siblings having sex ARE capable of creating a pregnancy), but there are potentially serious consequences because each person carries a genetic code that is carried on to their children.

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What would happen if a half brother and sister had a baby?

Yes -not as bad as if full siblings have a child together; but there is still a significant risk of the child inheriting the same abnormal recessive genes from both parents (as the parents are genetically similar) and exhibiting a genetic disease.

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Is it possible for siblings to have a healthy baby?

A brother and sister can have a perfectly healthy child together. Children born of incestuous couplings do have an increased risk of presenting genetic defects and/or deformities. But the increased risk is negligible with first generation inbreeding. It only becomes a significant risk with multi-generational incest.

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Can a child born to a brother and sister be normal?

Unlike what many people think, their offspring are not doomed to birth defects or medical problems. In fact, unless they both carry the same gene mutation, the couple's chance of having a healthy child is almost as high as any other couple.

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What happens if two relatives have a baby?

When parents are blood relatives, there is a higher risk of disease and birth defects, stillbirths, infant mortality and a shorter life expectancy. To have a child with severe diseases and disorders may cause heavy strain for the family in question.

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What happens if 2 siblings mate?

Children of parent-child or sibling-sibling unions are at an increased risk compared to cousin-cousin unions. Inbreeding may result in a greater than expected phenotypic expression of deleterious recessive alleles within a population.

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How common is it for brothers and sisters to experiment?

Retrospective research indicates sibling sexual experiences among children is common. Research indicates sibling sexual experiences are the least reported and the least investigated sexual behaviors among adolescents. Females may be more vulnerable to exploitative sibling sexual experiences than males.

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Can a sister carry her brother's baby?

The answer is yes! As long as a woman meets the requirements to become a surrogate, she can give this selfless, beautiful gift to a sibling struggling with infertility. In fact, it's becoming more and more common for intended parents to seek out family members or friends to carry their children.

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What is it called when 2 family members have a baby?

Consanguinity: Two people related by blood, that have a child You will need to consider the question of a possible genetic disease, specifically autosomal recessive and multifactorial diseases, depending up how closely related the parents were.

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Why is inbreeding bad genetically?

Inbreeding increases the risk of recessive gene disorders

They receive one copy of the gene from each parent. Animals that are closely related are more likely to carry a copy of the same recessive gene. This increases the risk they will both pass a copy of the gene onto their offspring.

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Can you have 3 biological parents?

This means the baby has three genetic parents: the father who supplied the sperm, the mother who supplied both womb and the egg nucleus, and an anonymous donor who supplied healthy mitochondria.

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What is it to me if my brother has a baby?

A nephew is the son of your sibling. This makes you the aunt or uncle of that nephew. While a mom, dad, sister, and brother are members of an immediate family, a nephew is part of your extended family because he's the son of a sibling.

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What are the results of inbreeding?

Inbreeding occurs when two closely related organisms mate with each other and produce offspring. The two main negative consequences of inbreeding are an increased risk of undesirable genes and a reduction in genetic diversity. The House of Habsburg may be the best example of the effects of inbreeding in humans.

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What am I if my half brother has a kid?

Half relationships

For example: your half nephew is your half sibling's son. your half grand-aunt is your grandparent's half sister. the children of half siblings are half cousins.

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Can siblings share 100% DNA?

Identical twins are the only siblings that share 100% of their DNA. Non-identical brothers and sisters share about 50% of inherited gene variants, which is why siblings and fraternal twins can be so different.

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What age does arousal start?

By the age of 8 or 9, some children become aware that sexual arousal is a specific type of erotic sensation and will seek these pleasurable experiences through various sights, self-touches, and fantasy.

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Can two siblings sleep together?

Age. In theory, siblings of any age could share a room, but a good time to make the move is when the younger kid is sleeping through the night, so as not to disturb the other child, says Edwards, who runs Wee Bee Dreaming Pediatric Sleep Consulting in Kamloops, BC.

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Can you breed half brother and sister?

Mating half siblings is perfectly okay but it's best if the different mothers are pretty much unrelated. Many breeders to this kind of line breeding, especially to fix type. And the breeder should have an indepth knowledge of what lies behind each parent.

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Can two brothers marry 2 sisters?

When two siblings marry siblings from another family, that's called a double-in-law marriage. Their children are double first cousins of one another. Instead of only having one set of grandparents in common, like most first cousins, they have both sets in common. They are as closely related as half siblings.

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What if first cousins have a baby?

If mom and dad are genetically similar, however, both versions of a gene are likely to shut down at the same time. It's estimated that 4 to 7 percent of children born from first-cousin marriages have birth defects, compared to 3 to 4 percent for children born from distantly related marriages.

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Can one baby have two mothers?

Yes the marvels of science have made it possible and the two-mum approach lets same-sex couples share the biological role. The process involves one woman's eggs, mixed in a lab dish with a donor sperm and then implanted in the other woman who carries the pregnancy.

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What is it called when you get pregnant for another family?

Surrogacy is an arrangement where a person carries and gives birth to a baby for another person, for example, a couple who can't be pregnant themselves.

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