Al-Marsad newspaper: The supervisor of the National Program for the Screening of Genetic Diseases in Newborns, Dr. Diaa Arafa, said that 65% of genetic diseases are due to consanguineous marriage.
“Arafa” added in an intervention on the “Al-Ikhbariya” channel that the child takes the rest from the father and mother, and sometimes they have no disease and the child is infected.
And he continued: Any person in the world carries 4 to 6 mutations, and when he meets a relative, the infection rate is high and reaches 25%.
He continued: Makkah Al-Mukarramah region has the highest infection rate, reaching 1.9 per thousand, and there are genetic diseases prevalent in the eastern regions, such as sickle cell disease, and there are diseases prevalent in the south .
