Good question. I thought it would be more like having a clone of yourself, but maybe that’s the same issue? Copy of a copy?
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Zip2@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Does having a baby with yourself carry the same genetic risks as breeding with first cousins?
allywilson@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
forrgott@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah, copy of the copy is probably a bad idea.
Zip2@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You’re not wrong, but the technology is coming.
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
iirc the main issue with familial reproduction is that, since families are likely to share much of the same genes, they are likely to share much of the same recessive genes. Invisible in individuals with just one copy, the union of two such individuals can create an individual with two copies, which means the trait is expressed.
If it is cloning, that is fine, but if it remixes the DNA, It could potentially cause expression of recessive traits? I think?