A family, dubbed as the most inbred in America, have been afflicted with a series of devastating genetic defects, triggered by a pair of identical twin brothers. The Whittakers, residing in the small ...

The Vice-Chancellor of the African School of Economics, Pan-African University of Excellence, Abuja, Prof Mahfouz Adedimeji, ...

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

Looking at inbreeding in the population of Holstein cattle was the focus of a recent webinar by Iowa State University dairy extension and outreach. John Cole from the Council of Dairy Cattle Breeding ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

Previous studies have raised concerns about inbreeding trends in Thoroughbreds. In a study published in 2011, the genotyping of 467 Thoroughbreds born between 1961-2006 showed an increase in the ...

The Whittaker family is famous for being "America's most inbred family," but how did they get that way? Their family tree ...

Inbreeding can cause lots of issues. Portraits of Charles II of Spain, last monarch of the Habsburg house, show his deformed chin due to generations of inbreeding.

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 ...

Generative AI risks inbreeding where AI-generated content used for training future AIs leads to a decline in quality and diversity, akin to the effects of inbreeding.