Pedigree-collapse Definition

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(genealogy) The phenomenon in which ancestral inbreeding causes the number of a descendant’s distinct ancestors to be smaller than that predicted by a binary tree (where represents number of generations).

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Origin of Pedigree-collapse

  • Coined by Robert C. Gunderson.

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