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Is infertility hereditary?

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Is infertility hereditary?
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Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 1:00 am
Can infertility be carried from parent to offspring? If my parents never had kids, would that mean I couldn't either?
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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 1:14 am
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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 1:32 am (This post was last modified: July 30, 2013 at 1:32 am by Tartarus Sauce.)
I would ask my mom or dad, but they both died before I was born.
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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 1:57 am
(July 30, 2013 at 1:00 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Can infertility be carried from parent to offspring? If my parents never had kids, would that mean I couldn't either?

Anyone who sired offspring capable of this degree of lameness can't be said to have been fertile.

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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 2:26 am
Hehe, it's a tricky one. I think if your parents were infertile you will not inherit anything from them. So I'm going with No.
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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 3:07 am
(July 30, 2013 at 1:00 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Can infertility be carried from parent to offspring?

If my parents never had kids, would that mean I couldn't either?

1. I'd say yes. If you we're the result of ivf, then you'd quite possibly be cheating natural selection which was trying to prevent your existence

2. Yes :p
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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 3:52 am
Fr0ds got it right, this time! Wink
Then again, you have some cases where an individual's infertility is not due to genetics, but environmental factors... In this case, no, the offspring should inherit the problem, unless it is subject to the same environmental events.
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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 6:07 am
You mean it wasn't the stork?
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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 7:44 am
People do use this argument for CPD, cephalopelvic disproportion, aka pelvis too small to pass a baby. Really... C-sections weren't routinely survivable for the mother until the early-mid 20th century. In developed countries the main causes of CPD? Rickets and broken pelvises, which lead to misshapen pelvises... Totally genetic.
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RE: Is infertility hereditary?
July 30, 2013 at 8:06 am
Funnily enough, on my mother's side of the family most of the men are infertile or just have a very low sperm count.
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