British Pakistanis are 13 times more likely to have children with genetic disorders t

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Re: British Pakistanis are 13 times more likely to have children with genetic disorde

@Zapp

It may only be 3-5% but if you look at it in context the risk is greater than it seems.

“A 7 to 8% chance (of genetic disorder) is 50% greater than a 5% chance,” says Philip Reilly, geneticist and author of Abraham Lincoln’s DNA, a popular history of human genetics. - Taken from the article you linked.

but this is a fallacy!

as an anology, smoking and contraceptive use increase the relative risk of thrombosis by 100% in young-adult females, but if the risk to get a thrombosis is already 0.00001%, then a 100% increase doesn’t mean a thing. Also, in this case -even though it’s 50% larger- I’d go for the absolute difference of 2%, which gives a clearer picture of reality