A specialist reveals the most important cause of the spread of genetic diseases in the Kingdom..and this region has the highest infection rate • Al-Marsad Newspaper

Al-Marsad Newspaper: The supervisor of the National Program for Screening Genetic Diseases in Newborns, Dr. Diaa Arafa, said that 65% of genetic diseases are due to consanguineous marriage.

“Arafa” added, in an intervention on the “Al-Ikhbariya” channel, that the child takes the change from the father and the mother, and sometimes they do not have diseases and the child is infected.

And he continued: Any person in the world carries from 4 to 6 mutations, and when he meets a relative, the infection rate is high and reaches 25%.

And he continued: Makkah Al-Mukarramah region has the highest infection rate, reaching 1.9 per thousand, and there are genetic diseases prevalent in the eastern regions, such as sickle cell disease, and there are diseases prevalent in the south.