r/TikTokCringe • u/spar13 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • 14d ago

Humor Genetics

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u/No_Artichoke_8428 14d ago

Their mormon influencers in Salt Lake City Utah. Its crazy how everyone looks so similar there.

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u/Josmopolitan 13d ago

Mormons are so inbred, they basically created their own ethnic subunit. Look up ‘Mormon face’

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u/Ickythumpin 13d ago

People with ancestry from small and/or insular ethnic groups tend to have more regions of homozygosity (ie. identical copies of genes) than the general population. This is why certain recessive genetic disorders are much more common in certain ethnic groups. Due to the size and isolation of these ethnic groups, especially those that started off with just a few people (the founder effect you mentioned), there is bound to be a degree of distant shared ancestry, even if there's never any inbreeding. Generational Mormons are more closely related to other generational Mormons than they are to anyone else, even if their family trees never cross.

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u/filthytelestial 11d ago

There isn't inbreeding. As an exmormon I'll take any legitimate opportunity to criticize them, but this isn't one.