A quote from The Sunday Times, 10 February 2008

Medical research suggests that while British Pakistanis are responsible for 3% of all births, they account for one in three British children born with genetic illnesses.

A quote from The Sunday Telegraph, 10 February 2008

Mr [Phil] Woolas, [the environment minister] […] said: "Part of the risk, I am told by the health service, is first-cousin marriages. […]” The Muslim Public Affairs Committee, a campaign group, suggested the minister was demonising British Muslims. An MPAC spokesman accused Mr Woolas of "flirting with Islamaphobia" […]

In Bradford, more than three quarters of all Pakistani marriages are believed to be between first cousins. In 2005, the city's Royal Infirmary Hospital said it had identified more than 140 different recessive disorders among local children, compared with the usual 20-30.

A quote from the Western Resistance blog, 10 February 2008

Back in November 2005, only Ann Cryer, MP for Keighley and Ilkley, seemed concerned enough to bring the matter to the attention of parliament. […] Speaking on BBC's Newsnight, she said "We address problems of smoking, drinking, obesity and we say it's a public health issue, therefore we have to get involved with persuading people to adopt a different lifestyle. I think this should be applied to the Asian community. They must look outside the family for husbands and wives for their young people."