Friday, June 15, 2007

mating close relatives



When a disease–causing recessive allele is rare, it is relatively unlikely that two carriers of the same harmful allele will meet and mate. However, if the man and woman are close relatives (for example, siblings or first cousins), the probability of passing on recessive traits increases greatly. These are called consanguineous (“same blood”) matings, and they are indicated in pedigrees by double lines. Because people with recent common ancestors are more likely to carry the same recessive alleles than are unrelated people, it is more likely that a mating of close relatives will produce offspring homozygous for recessive traits—including harmful ones.


There is debate among geneticists about the extent to which human consanguinity increases the risk of inherited diseases. Many deleterious alleles have such severe effects that a homozygous embryo spontaneously aborts long before birth. Still, most societies and cultures have laws or taboos forbidding marriages between close relatives. These rules may have evolved out of empirical observation that in most populations, stillbirths and birth defects are more common when parents are closely related. Social and economic factors have also influenced the development of customs and laws against consanguineous marriages.


حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهَاتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُكُمْ وَأَخَوَاتُكُمْ وَعَمَّاتُكُمْ وَخَالاَتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُ الأَخِ وَبَنَاتُ الأُخْتِ وَأُمَّهَاتُكُمُ اللاَّتِي أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ وَأَخَوَاتُكُم مِّنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ وَأَن تَجْمَعُواْ بَيْنَ الأُخْتَيْنِ إَلاَّ مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ إِنَّ اللّهَ كَانَ غَفُوروَأُمَّهَاتُ نِسَآئِكُمْ وَرَبَائِبُكُمُ اللاَّتِي فِي حُجُورِكُم مِّن نِّسَآئِكُمُ اللاَّتِي دَخَلْتُم بِهِنَّ فَإِن لَّمْ تَكُونُواْ دَخَلْتُم بِهِنَّ فَلاَ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَحَلاَئِلُ أَبْنَائِكُمُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ أَصْلاَبِكُمْ اً رَّحِيماً

Diharamkan kepada kamu berkahwin dengan (perempuan-perempuan yang berikut): ibu-ibu kamu, dan anak-anak kamu, dan saudara-saudara kamu, dan saudara-saudara bapa kamu, dan saudara-saudara ibu kamu dan anak-anak saudara kamu yang lelaki, dan anak-anak saudara kamu yang perempuan, dan ibu-ibu kamu yang telah menyusukan kamu, dan saudara-saudara susuan kamu, dan ibu-ibu isteri kamu, dan anak-anak tiri yang dalam pemuliharaan kamu dari isteri-isteri yang kamu telah campuri; tetapi kalau kamu belum campuri mereka (isteri kamu) itu (dan kamu telahpun menceraikan mereka), maka tiadalah salah kamu (berkahwin dengannya). Dan (haram juga kamu berkahwin dengan) bekas isteri anak-anak kamu sendiri yang berasal dari benih kamu. Dan diharamkan kamu menghimpunkan dua beradik sekali (untuk menjadi isteri-isteri kamu), kecuali yang telah berlaku pada masa yang lalu. Sesungguhnya Allah adalah Maha Pengampun, lagi Maha Mengasihani.

an-nisaa : 23

moral of the story...can't marry with close relatives...Al-Quran said that and it is proven by science.

ps: what about second cousins???any idea??

4 comments:

Ahlami said...

alaa...2nd cousin...jauh doh tuee.
heh3..i know what you mean!! huahuahua....sudah...tktau..
wakakaka..

bubye
amie

ihsan_huhu said...

marilah kita mengusha awek2 Oz

lalalala~~

Anonymous said...

which means we're okay...
:-*
=p

adLYNNa's said...

imalha : jaoh des...show me testcross for F3 pls...ikkiikki....

ihsan : g la usha sorg2...watpe aku usha aweks Oz...xde gunenyer..hahaha

madmike : eh??ye ke?xpenah terlintas la plk...