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seszetttoday at 10:23 AM1 replyview on HN

> Now if the sperm cell were from the same donor I don’t know what would happen

Probably nothing special except some inbreeding with the loss of 25% of genetic material of the donor individual (each gamete containing a random 50% of the donor's genetic material). Not sure how fast this level of inbreeding would be deleterious.


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vintermanntoday at 10:34 AM

That's some Cleopatra-level inbreeding. The child's - or should we say the victim's - DNA would have longer runs of homozygosity than a child of incest.