Pedigree-collapse Definition
noun
(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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