{"id":2373,"date":"2006-02-13T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2006-02-13T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T18:45:00","slug":"breeding-moronis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/02\/13\/14\/45\/breeding-moronis\/","title":{"rendered":"Breeding Moronis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060210\/ap_on_he_me\/polygamy_birth_defects\">A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border &#8230; Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects &#8230; the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community&#8217;s polygamist founders. Community historian Ben Bistline said most of the community&#8217;s 8,000 residents are in two major families descended from a handful of founders who settled there in the 1930s. &#8220;Ninety percent of the community is related to one side or the other,&#8221; said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border &#8230; Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}