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Regarding haredi families, my theory (I haven't seen it anywhere, feel free
to blast me if you think I'm wrong) is that there is a certain amount of
gene-pool 'in-breeding' in certain communities, I always thought that was
the reason for seemingly higher rates of birth defects...
I. Ditza Silverman, RN, BSN
Israel
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>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:43:42 EST
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: family size and birth defects
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>Pat asked, "any clue on why the increase in birth defects?" when haredi
>families increased to very large numbers.
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>This is out of my area of expertise but my impression was that in general
>birth defects increase with number of children, as they also do with
maternal
>age. Any of the docs or knowledgeable others want to comment?
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