Is it true that if people inbreed long enough, they will turn blue?

Question

When I was going to UNO, I heard that were colonies of inbreed blue people.

Answer 1

So that explains the Smurfs!!!

Answer 2

The most famous of the blue people were the Fugates family. The blue Fugates weren't a race but rather an excessively tight-knit family living in the Appalachian Mountains. The patriarch of the clan was Martin Fugate, who settled along the banks of Troublesome Creek near Hazard, Kentucky, sometime after 1800. His wife, Mary, is thought to have been a carrier for a rare disease known as hereditary methemoglobinemia. Methemoglobinemia, in short, is a disease that causes blood to carry less oxygen which makes the skin of a Caucasian person display a bluish appearance due to the lack of oxygen. It is usually a recessive condition however the Fugate family intermarried with another clan, the Smith’s, and someone in that family carried the same recessive gene. Because of the small size of the community the family continued to inbreed and the family continued to display the unusual color trait well into the 1960’s.

Answer 3

Where is UNO? I thought that was a card game. I know that inbreeding can really mess up a person's face, make their noses really big and have other weird deformities. It can also lead to mental disorders, ala King George the III of England. I've never heard of any blue people outside of Star Trek or busy painters.

Edit: Ok, that makes sense now. If it comes from a university, well, that's more credible...but still, blue people?

Answer 4

Yes, they also shrink and develop a fear of Gargamel.

Seriously, though, there is a genetic disorder- Methemoglobinemia- that can cause people to appear blueish. It's not inbreeding that leads to it but of course, since it is genetic, descendants and relatives would have a higher likelihood of carrying the chromosome and having the disorder.

There was a family in Kentucky that carried the disorder. Since Kentucky is inaccurately associated with inbreeding, that's probably where this whacked story you heard of derived.

Answer 5

It is unlikely. However, inbreeding CAN lead to serious genetic defects during birth, which can lead to mental retardation and other disorders. This is because related people are more likely to have the same recessive genes that can cause a disorder. If these genes are paired, the disorder appears.

Answer 6

i think you just start becoming retarted the people in hills have eyes are inbreed
and i think to get ocean blue eyes back in the day they were in breed
also most royal families breed within there relatives

Answer 7

Um, unless humans have a gene for blue skin (which we don't), that is impossible. Inbreeding does not create new traits. So in other words, no, they will not turn blue.

Answer 8

i would don't believe that unless they r smorfes or mutated strain of dna some how got in to the inbreed family

Answer 9

There was a family in Kentucky that turned blue because of some weird mutation that ocurred due to inbreeding. i=the last one died in 1982 i believe. sorry, i cant cite it. i read it in some science book many years ago.

Answer 10

That makes two blue things to come out of Kentucky........Bluegrass and blue hillbillies!

Answer 11

no, as differently coloured humans breed the outcome will be lightly tanned skin, not white skin. This will take thousands of years tho.