Knowing absolutely nothing about Algerian culture, I have to wonder if cousin marriage is as common there as it is in other Arab Muslim cultures? Certainly such practices increase the mutational load in the associated societies. Could the unusually high incidence of a particular mutation be evidence of this?
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Knowing absolutely nothing about Algerian culture, I have to wonder if cousin marriage is as common there as it is in other Arab Muslim cultures? Certainly such practices increase the mutational load in the associated societies. Could the unusually high incidence of a particular mutation be evidence of this?
I would think so...