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What conditions do the inbred royal families have?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

2 conditions: Some european royalty -hemophilia. House of habsburg -mandibular prognathism.

Answered 3/31/2013

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Dr. Jeffrey Satinover answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Hemophilia: Hemophilia is the most common such serious condition in european royalty. This particular illness did not become common because it--as opposed to many others--is specially associated with inbreeding. Rather, by chance it appeared in the royal lines and then became concentrated by intermarriage. In other royal families elsewhere different illnesses dominated.

Answered 12/10/2013

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