Scientists have confirmed that facial deformities among the House of Habsburg were caused by inbreeding, according to a newly-published study. The twist: they reached their findings by studying ...

Researchers focused on the House of Habsburg, a family famous for multiple generations of marrying close relatives. They ...

This genealogy laid the groundwork for research into whether inbreeding caused the notorious facial deformity. Findings confirmed that both the Habsburg jaw and the related maxillary deficiency ...

His Habsburg jaw stood so much out that his two rows of ... Over time this sort of process would result in radically increased inbreeding coefficients. The chart to the left plots out the process of ...

The term “Habsburg AI” has even been proposed by some specialists to describe this digital inbreeding, in reference to the ...

The Habsburgs, once the powerhouse behind expansive Spanish and Austrian empires, have become synonymous with the infamous "Habsburg jaw", a severe facial deformation attributed by some to ...

Another famous example of inbreeding gives an in-depth look at what kind of genetic havoc hundreds of years of marrying relatives can wreak on offspring - the Hapsburg dynasty. At once the most ...

Rare inherited genetic disorders worsened by repeated inbreeding may have brought down the powerful Spanish Habsburg dynasty, Spanish researchers said on Tuesday. Checks of genealogical charts and ...

According to one study, inbreeding is the culprit behind this peculiar trait. Scientists pored over historical portraits to dissect the distinct facial characteristics of the Habsburg royals ...