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Is Autism hereditary?

MXanado

Please, I'm looking for information.

I live in a society where almost all marriages are arranged (not here to discuss arranged marriages).

A suiter has come for my daughter who seems to check all the boxes.

However, he has 6 brothers, one of which is Autistic.

Does this increase the likelihood that he will have an autistic child?

Thanks

M

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  • Recent genetic research has shown that some genetic variants linked to autism are also linked to higher than average intelligence. Life is a lottery and heredity is the same. First thing to avoid is cousin marriages. Charles Darwin married his first cousin and the ailments, both physical and mental, of his children made him feel intensely guilty about his marriage throughout all of his later life. Hybrid vigour is a real thing, so if you are arranging a marriage, genetically, the best thing you can do is for the prospective partner to be from outside your kinship group and preferably outside your local area or the local area of your ancestors.

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  • Recent genetic research has shown that some genetic variants linked to autism are also linked to higher than average intelligence. Life is a lottery and heredity is the same. First thing to avoid is cousin marriages. Charles Darwin married his first cousin and the ailments, both physical and mental, of his children made him feel intensely guilty about his marriage throughout all of his later life. Hybrid vigour is a real thing, so if you are arranging a marriage, genetically, the best thing you can do is for the prospective partner to be from outside your kinship group and preferably outside your local area or the local area of your ancestors.

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