Mormon in breeding.

[Samson]

This sounds like conditions dogs suffer with their hind legs, dragging themselves around.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11896915

 

[Aepervius]

You are thinking of a degenerative genetic disease mostly appearing in older dog. Where the spine nerve somehow get worst and worst. I can't recall the name, but yes it is due to inbreeding too.

But the most sad part ? The people living there do not think the following (keeping in mind 1/7 of the population has the gene at least in recessive form) :

Dr. Tarby told Time magazine in 2008 that the community doesn't believe that inbreeding and polygamy is making the issue worse.

"They have their mythology about the condition. They think it's something in the water, or something in the air," he said.

Before he retired, he said he addressed FLDS leaders about measures they could take to stop the spread of the disease.

He said they should bar marriage between two people that have the recessive gene or ask the couple not to have children.

If an already married couple have a child that presents the disease, they should discontinue having children in the future or undergo testing during pregnancy and abort any fetus that tests positive for the gene. The group refused to follow this advice

"It's not something they are willing to do," Tarby said.

 

[fuelair]

Religious ******** will be ignorant , uncaring religious ********!!! Let 'em die out!!!

 

[fuelair]

Oh, you misspelled Moron in the title!!!

 

[fuelair]

As a side note, inbreeding!!!

 

[SusanB-M1]

You are thinking of a degenerative genetic disease mostly appearing in older dog. Where the spine nerve somehow get worst and worst. I can't recall the name, but yes it is due to inbreeding too.

But the most sad part ? The people living there do not think the following (keeping in mind 1/7 of the population has the gene at least in recessive form) :

A few years ago I heard a programme about the extremely orthodox Jewish sect in London who will not permit marriage outside the group. I do not know if it was that particular recessive gene, but something similar.

 

[Shadowdweller]

As it happens, population bottlenecks like that are how we get genetically homogenous groups that some like to call "races". Not merely through inbreeding per se, but because genetic drift takes exponentially longer to weed out genes as a given population size increases. No, it's not healthy or superior in any fashion.

 

[ponderingturtle]

And they are not as sensible as the Taron people who decided to go extinct as an ethnic group because of the rate of birth defects.

 

[CORed]

You are thinking of a degenerative genetic disease mostly appearing in older dog. Where the spine nerve somehow get worst and worst. I can't recall the name, but yes it is due to inbreeding too.

But the most sad part ? The people living there do not think the following (keeping in mind 1/7 of the population has the gene at least in recessive form) :

There is also hip dysplasia, which is a malformation of the hip socket which results in arthritic hips in older dogs. It is associated with recessive genes, so tends to be common in several breeds of purebred dogs (Labs and German Shepherds among them).