This little cat is named Giselle, but she's called...  ...She is blind and has multiple deformities due to inbreeding among dwarf Munchkin cats. The breeder turned her...

Fumarase deficiency is a metabolic disorder that affects brain development and results in devastating disability. It is the result of recessive genes, and before 1990, only 13 cases were ever diagnosed. But then Dr. Theo...

If you draw the usual family tree, you can potentially go back too far, where there are more people in your family tree than there were people on the planet at the time. Yeah, this family trees can't grow exponentially f...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Endl...  ...e a genetic nightmare. The poster family of royal inbreeding is the House of Hapsburg. Since the 15th century,...  ...ike a bulldog.Other common Hapsburg traits due to inbreeding : a large misshapen nose, sagging lower eyelids, s...

The current wisdom on cousins marrying is that it's not all that genetically dangerous -unless it happens over several generations. That is exactly what happened in Charles Darwin's family, according to James Moore, prof...