Children of pharaohs often had various deformities due to inbreeding. This is explained by the presence in their genomes of the same defective genes from their father and mother, geneticist, professor at the University of Göttingen in Germany, leading researcher at the Institute of General Genetics. NI Vavilova RAS, Konstantin Krutovsky Professor at the Department of Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Siberian Federal University (SFU).
“They were more homozygous, meaning they carried exactly the same two genes from a common ancestor inherited from the consanguineous father and mother. And if these genes were defective, then a healthy child would not be born,” the geneticist explained.
According to him, such harmful mutations are rare in the population and are eliminated through selection, but with consanguineous marriages the probability of both parents being carriers of the harmful defective gene increases significantly.
“And the famous beauty Cleopatra VII was the illegitimate child of her father Ptolemy XII and an unknown concubine. Therefore, she did not suffer from inbreeding and was even considered the standard of beauty,” added Krutovsky.
Often, due to the presence of two identical genes, pharaohs suffered from hemophilia, dwarfism, polydactyly (extra fingers) and epilepsy.
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Source: Gazeta
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