Inbreeding of dogs can lead to blindness, deafness, and genetic diseases. Learn how it impacts generations of dogs and what ...

Inbreeding is where cousins and other close relatives have children together. Most cultures have strong taboos against it, primarily because of the increased risk of birth defects. Here’s why ...

But according to research published by a team from the University of California, Davis, and Wisdom Health Genetics in Finland, purebred dogs have, on average, a “coefficient of inbreeding” of ...

Inbreeding also leads to a reduction of reproductive fitness. Neanderthals had 40% lower reproductive fitness than modern humans, according to previous research cited in the new study.

The inbreeding also led to facial deformities such as a large lower jaw and chin called the “Habsburg jaw,” and humped “Habsburg nose.”) ...

Inbreeding has also afflicted other populations of isolated or endangered animals, such as mountain lions in California, gorillas in Africa and bottle nose dolphins off western Australia.

A new paper in PLoS One offers a more precise genetic framework for understanding the decline of the Spanish Hapsburgs, The Role of Inbreeding in the Extinction of a European Royal Dynasty:. The kings ...

It’s a different sort of “blue blood.” One rural Kentucky family sported sapphire skin due to a rare condition sparked by generations of inbreeding.