How cousin marriages affect Georgia’s ethnic Azerbaijani population

By | January 30th, 2018|Categories: Society|Tags: , , , |

“My elder daughter has thalassemia. When doctors diagnosed her, we learned that it is a genetic disease and mostly it happens with children when they are born as a result of cousin-marriages. I’m married with my cousin. If I were aware of the risk, I would not have married him; […]