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February 13, 2013 3:45 am at 3:45 am
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yehudayona
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Dor Yesharim does wonderful work, but they test a limited number of disorders. I’m pretty sure that there are some genetic disorders that cannot be tested — no one knows what genes cause them. My suspicion is that occasional cousin weddings aren’t very dangerous, but if there’s a pattern over several generations, it’s another story. The hemophilia of the royal families of Europe demonstrates this.