The influence of inbred marriages on the incidence of children

Abstract

Inbred marriages are traditionally popular among the population of Azerbaijan, in the spread of which various religious, national traditions, rites and prejudices play an important role. The birth of children with various congenital malformations from year to year not only does not decrease, but in some cases even tends to increase. In the presence of a pathological recessive gene in the family of a married couple with consanguinity, the risk of having a sick child is 25%. Therefore, the problem of inbred marriages requires a more in-depth study together with doctors of various specialties. In this paper, we studied the prevalence of inbred marriages and assessed the possibility of their influence on the formation of the health of children born from these marriages.