title: [Mental capacity and human consanguinity].
abstract: Mental abilities and inbreeding. The comparison between 1,302 adults born from consanguineous marriages underlines a heavy depression of mental abilities. The load of inbreeding equals the load of environment, both adding their influences, without interaction. Homozygosity acts probably more particularly on the brain.
mesh_terms: D003241:Consanguinity; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence
vernacular_title: Capacités mentales et consanguinité humaine.