{"id":84629,"date":"2026-02-08T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84629"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:44:11","slug":"nhs-funded-study-of-cousin-marriage-is-biased-and-downplays-the-risk-of-birth-defects-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/nhs-funded-study-of-cousin-marriage-is-biased-and-downplays-the-risk-of-birth-defects-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS-funded study of cousin marriage is &#8216;biased&#8217; and downplays the risk of birth defects, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/02\/07\/23\/106196231-15539141-image-a-1_1770508671955.jpg\" alt=\"An NHS-funded study of cousin marriage has been criticised for 'downplaying' the potential damage to children\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An NHS-funded study of cousin marriage has been criticised for &#8216;downplaying&#8217; the potential damage to children.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15539141\/NHS-study-cousin-marriage-biased-downplays-risk-birth-defects.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An NHS-funded study of cousin marriage has been criticised for &#8216;downplaying&#8217; the potential damage to children. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84630,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84629\/revisions\/84630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}