http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070614/us_nm/usa_mormons_genes_dc;_ylt=AnMmt39pbZ_u0PlwJAwCPFfMWM0F
The twin border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have the world's highest known prevalence of fumarase deficiency, an enzyme irregularity that causes severe mental retardation brought on by cousin marriage, doctors say.
Nice. You would think at this point they would stop breeding with each other??
ETA: The article says ...."Arizona has about half the world's population of known fumarase deficiency patients," said Dr. Theodore Tarby, a pediatric neurologist who has treated many of the children at Arizona clinics under contracts with the state."
SO basically we are all paying for these children? OK I am just going to back away from my computer....
The twin border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have the world's highest known prevalence of fumarase deficiency, an enzyme irregularity that causes severe mental retardation brought on by cousin marriage, doctors say.
Nice. You would think at this point they would stop breeding with each other??
ETA: The article says ...."Arizona has about half the world's population of known fumarase deficiency patients," said Dr. Theodore Tarby, a pediatric neurologist who has treated many of the children at Arizona clinics under contracts with the state."
SO basically we are all paying for these children? OK I am just going to back away from my computer....