Not really – we have a percentage for measuring effect of inbreeding on offsrping. This percentage is called “inbreeding coefficient and is computed as a percentage of chances for two alleles (form of genes) to be identical by descent. The higher the number, the worst the effect.
For brothers/sister (like in Game of Thrones) it’s 25%
But for third cousins it’s only 0.39% so the risk is there still but it is obviously much less. From a biological point of view at least, obviously in humans there are other considerations to take into account!
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