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  1.  @lara7224  ew can not define incest. Most countries in the world don't ban cousin marriage. If you don't mind, please read Consanguinity in Context by Prof. Alan Bittles. He was doing cousin marriages research for 35 years. Or you can read Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin Marriage by Martin Ottenheimer.
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  2.  @assxcfca9558  Yes, we don't have to. But most people, they ban it because they think it's dangerous, while it's not. Most cousin couples have healthy children. But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said.
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  3.  @assxcfca9558  The potential risk is still small, 4%-6%. while unrelated couple is 2%-3%. I just tell the facts. If you don't mind, for more information, kindly read Consanguinity in Context by Alan Bittles. He had done cousin marriages research for over 35 years. Hope you get more knowledge. I'm aware your concern. The problem can be problematic if there are cousin marriages in the family for multiple generations.
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  4. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  5.  @evr134  it's 96%, they are normal. It is the same risk as women over 40.
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  6.  @jeneticallymodified1  IT IS NOT INCEST "Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small," said Eamonn Sheridan, a senior lecturer in clinical genetics at the University of Leeds who co-led the study and presented its results at a briefing in London. He added that this still means 96 percent of blood-relative couples are likely to have babies with no birth defects: "It's important to note that the vast majority of babies born to couples who are blood relatives are absolutely fine." - reuters(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php Sexual activity between two people who are very closely related in a family, for example, a brother and sister, or a father and daughter. - Oxford Dictionary "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  7. Because of the modest health risks and access to genetic counseling and premarital advice for cousin couples, Bittles says state bans on first-cousin marriage appear to be unnecessary. "Given decreasing family sizes and ever-increasing educational, employment and social mobility, it seems almost inevitable that the prevalence of cousin marriage in the U.S. and other Western countries will decline," he says. "There is certainly no evidence that if the states which currently ban first cousin marriage were to repeal their legislation, a great demand for such marriages would result."
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  8. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  9. It should never be incest. "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times
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  10. It is not incest.
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  11.  @darrenstrathdee7425  you are wrong. Cousin marriages are not incest. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com "Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small," said Eamonn Sheridan, a senior lecturer in clinical genetics at the University of Leeds who co-led the study and presented its results at a briefing in London. He added that this still means 96 percent of blood-relative couples are likely to have babies with no birth defects: "It's important to note that the vast majority of babies born to couples who are blood relatives are absolutely fine." - reuters(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  12.  @darrenstrathdee7425  in what context?
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  13.  @juliamccoey7496  the people are exaggerating, it is not the video.
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  14. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com
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  15.  @carltonthepug  at least, I provide the references.
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  16.  @irenekosasih5650  it is the same as women over 40.
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  17. Kindly read Consanguinity in Context by Alan Bittles. The law of banning first cousin marriages is not scientific.
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  18. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com
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  19. The increased risk is 2-3%, while the background risk is 2-3% in general population. The total risk is 4-6%. So, 2-3% might be caused by consanguineous marriage and other 2-3% might be caused by the background risk that usually common for unrelated couple.
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  20. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  21. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com
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  22. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  23. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  24. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  25.  @linsyharrington13  you are exaggerating. The risk is not that high actually. Go find some papers and journals or books. This video is not enough to make you understand the whole picture.
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  26. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com
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  27. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  28. Not it is not. Read Leviticus 18, and Number 36
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  29. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  30. No, it's not.
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  31. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com
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  32.  Loving one another  what are you talking about?
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  33. It's not illegal and not incest in most countries in the world. The risk is also still small, slightly higher than unrelated couple having children. 2-3% for unrelated couple and 3.7-5.7% for first cousin couple in general population.
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  34. Where cousin is mentioned? Read Number 36, Leviticus 18.
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  35. 1 in 4. If both parents have the same copies. Even for unrelated couple, if they both have the same copies/recessive gene, the chance is 25%.
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  36. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  37.  @meihuangha  cousin marriages are not incest in genetic. It is not always happened. From the above, it becomes clear that the risk for consanguineous couples of having affected offspring actually consists of three different risks: a. The baseline risk for all parents-to-be of having affected offspring; b. The extra risk due to their consanguineous relation; c. The risk from disorders already present in the family. Genetic counselling of consanguineous couples requires a thorough inquiry into the exact pedigree structure and the disorders in the partners and their family – both common and separate branches. As is usual in genetic counselling, risks should always be put into perspective. Only a minority of consanguineous couples has an increased risk, and if a consanguineous couple has an affected child, this is not always caused by the consanguinity of the parents. Genetic testing of affected and unaffected members may be helpful in some families, and genetic screening of parents-to-be for carriership of the more frequent disorders in a population might be considered. - Cousin marriages: between tradition, genetic risk and cultural change, ISBN 978-1-78238-492-2
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  38. From the above, it becomes clear that the risk for consanguineous couples of having affected offspring actually consists of three different risks: a. The baseline risk for all parents-to-be of having affected offspring; b. The extra risk due to their consanguineous relation; c. The risk from disorders already present in the family. Genetic counselling of consanguineous couples requires a thorough inquiry into the exact pedigree structure and the disorders in the partners and their family – both common and separate branches. As is usual in genetic counselling, risks should always be put into perspective. Only a minority of consanguineous couples has an increased risk, and if a consanguineous couple has an affected child, this is not always caused by the consanguinity of the parents. Genetic testing of affected and unaffected members may be helpful in some families, and genetic screening of parents-to-be for carriership of the more frequent disorders in a population might be considered. - Cousin marriages: between tradition, genetic risk and cultural change, ISBN 978-1-78238-492-2
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  39. For the first generation. It's totally fine.
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  40. "The possible mandatory prohibition of consanguineous marriage apparently approved by the Drafting Committee and accepted by the ASHG Board of Directors contradicts the 1970 conclusion of the US National Conference of Commissioners that state laws banning first-cousin marriage lacked scientific foundation and should be repealed." Consanguinity in Context, ISBN 9781139015844, DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139015844
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  41. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. It is NOT INCEST. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com But the risks apply primarily to couples who are carriers of disorders that are normally very, very rare, Bittles explained. "For over 90% of cousin marriages, their risk [of having a child with a genetic abnormality] is the same as it is for the general population," he said. - EurekAlert! eurekalert(dot)org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512(dot)php "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  42. "The possible mandatory prohibition of consanguineous marriage apparently approved by the Drafting Committee and accepted by the ASHG Board of Directors contradicts the 1970 conclusion of the US National Conference of Commissioners that state laws banning first-cousin marriage lacked scientific foundation and should be repealed." Consanguinity in Context, ISBN 9781139015844, DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139015844 In an effort at clarification, the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) convened a group of experts to review existing studies on risks to offspring and issue recommendations for clinical practice. Their report concluded that the risks of a first-cousin union were generally much smaller than assumed—about 1.7%–2% above the background risk for congenital defects and 4.4% for pre-reproductive mortality—and did not warrant any special preconception testing. In the authors' view, neither the stigma that attaches to such unions in North America nor the laws that bar them were scientifically well-grounded. When dealing with worried clients, the authors advised genetic counselors to “normalize” such unions by discussing their high frequency in some parts of the world and providing examples of prominent cousin couples, such as Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood. ........It is obviously illogical to condemn eugenics and at the same time favor laws that prevent cousins from marrying. But we do not aim to indict these laws on the grounds that they constitute eugenics. That would assume what needs to be proved – that all forms of eugenics are necessarily bad. In our view, cousin marriage laws should be judged on their merits. But from that standpoint as well, they seem ill-advised. These laws reflect once-prevailing prejudices about immigrants and the rural poor and oversimplified views of heredity, and they are inconsistent with our acceptance of reproductive behaviors that are much riskier to offspring. They should be repealed, not because their intent was eugenic, but because neither the scientific nor social assumptions that informed them are any longer defensible. - “It's Ok, We're Not Cousins by Blood”: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060320
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  43.  @ludy41  It's true, the background risk is 2-3% in general population for unrelated couple. Basic knowledge. Kindly do your research.
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  44. For cousin couple, the risk of having children with abnormalities is 3.7-5-7 % in general population, while for unrelated couple the risk is 2-3%. There is an increased risk, but it's slightly higher. It's legal in most countries in the world. Banning cousin marriage is not good choice, since anthropologically, biologically and socially, cousin marriages have been practiced in human history. Even UNESCO and WHO conclude that cousin marriages in the world should not be banned.
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  45. No, it's not if you see the statistic
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  46. I think because for cousin couple, the risk of having children with abnormalities is 3.7-5-7 % in general population, while for unrelated couple the risk is 2-3% in general population. It's slightly higher. The risk of having children with abnormalities is shown for women over 40 years old, and it's the same as the risk of having children with abnormalities between cousin couple. I think it's good to have a DNA test, but most children from cousin couples are fine.
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  47. This video doesn't represent the whole picture. Where are the other families? Stop exaggerating! 96-97% of the children are normal in British Pakistani Community. Called "Born in Bradford" or BiB, the study was the largest of its type ever conducted and looked at more than 11,300 babies in the northern English city of Bradford between 2007 and 2011. Among the Pakistani subgroup, they found 77 percent of babies born with birth defects were born to parents who were in blood-relative marriages. The researchers found the overall rate of birth defects in the BiB babies - which included largely white British and Pakistani mothers but also other ethnic groups - was approximately 3.0 percent, nearly double the national rate of around 1.7 percent. - reuters(dot)com “Whilst consanguineous marriage increases the risk of birth defect from 3 percent to 6 percent, the absolute risk is still small,” -Eamonn Sheridan, reuters(dot)com Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. This figure of 3 per cent contrasts with the 1.6 per cent in children born of out of non-blood-relations unions - DR. Balasubramanian, thehindu(dot)com "Consanguinity unions or marriages usually involve individuals who are cousin and they can be considered to be different from incestuous unions that involve primary relatives such as parent-child, siblings, or uncle-niece." - Consanguinity in Context. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 63. By Alan H. Bittles. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-78186-2. 2012 The report made a point of saying that the term "incest" should not be applied to cousins, but only to sexual relations between siblings or between parents and children. Babies who result from those unions are thought to be at significantly higher risk of genetic problems, the report said, but there is not enough data to be sure. - New York Times 2002 nytimes(dot)com/2002/04/03/health/no-genetic-reason-to-discourage-cousin-marriage-study-finds(dot)html That doesn't necessarily mean cousins should be banned from marrying or that a court would uphold a ban on marriages between cousins, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, who has written about incest. "I don't think there is a justification for the cousin marriage ban," she said - ABC News abcnews(dot)go(dot)com/TheLaw/story?id=4799115&page=1
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  48.  @armanmally3279  No, your siblings share more than 50% of your DNA, while your first-cousins share 12.5%% of your DNA. Marrying your nieces is more like marrying your siblings. They share 25% of the DNA.
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  49.  @armanmally3279  Socially, perhaps yes. Genetically, no.
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  50. Only in the US, people think it is immoral, not in europe.
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