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Aboriginal Australian do, in fact, suffer from a disproportionate number of hereditary diseases:

https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/212/5/lessons-learned-ge...

While there is considerable genetic diversity between Aboriginals as a whole, the diversity of individual communities is often quite low, and in response many communities evolved elaborate kinship systems to avoid too much intermarriage.



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