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What is the likelihood of an infant being born with mental retardation if a parent also has it?
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∙ 7y ago
There is no good way to tell. What type of retardation? The other parent of the child could be the source. Those two people could simply have been a bad genetic match. An isolated case caused by other factors. There are some genetic tests for some things, but I don't think a complete screening is possible yet. You could look at the extended family of both parents and see if similar cases have shown up. If so then you could suspect that branch of that family had some issue. Depending on the issue with the current child, your doctor might be able to give you some clue, but with a new partner, there will be a new mix of genes and what good or bad mix there may be is still a guess. Unless the current parent has a known problem you would be running the same risk everyone does. Question is Can you deal with being a parent of a child with issues and are you willing to take the chance. Same question every potential parent should ask themselves. Can I be a parent no matter what?
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 7y agoThe probably is not practical to compute as there are too many unknown variables.
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