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  2. Inbreeding - Wikipedia

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    Inbreeding is also used to reveal deleterious recessive alleles, which can then be eliminated through assortative breeding or through culling. In plant breeding, inbred lines are used as stocks for the creation of hybrid lines to make use of the effects of heterosis. Inbreeding in plants also occurs naturally in the form of self-pollination.

  3. Colt clan incest case - Wikipedia

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    "June", born in 1948, and "Tim Colt", born in 1943, were originally from New Zealand. June, who was the product of brother-sister incest, married Tim in 1966.The couple had seven children together: Martha, Frank, Paula, Cherry, Rhonda, Betty, and Charlie, before moving to Victoria in the 1970s. [1]

  4. Inbred strain - Wikipedia

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    Wright introduced the inbreeding coefficient F as the correlation between uniting gametes in 1922, and most of the subsequent theory of inbreeding has been developed from his work. The definition of the inbreeding coefficient now most widely used is mathematically equivalent to that of Wright. [7]

  5. Goler clan - Wikipedia

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    The Goler family lived together in two shacks in a remote wooded area on South Mountain, located south of the community of White Rock, outside the town of Wolfville.Their ancestors occupied the area since at least the mid-1800s and, according to a sociologist at Acadia University, showed incest in the family dating back to the 1860s. [3]

  6. Pedigree collapse - Wikipedia

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    Without pedigree collapse, a person's ancestor tree is a binary tree, formed by the person, the parents (2), the grandparents (4), great-grandparents (8), and so on.. However, the number of individuals in such a tree grows exponentially and will eventually become impossibl

  7. Coefficient of relationship - Wikipedia

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    People for which the same situation applies for their 1024 ancestors of ten generations ago would have a coefficient of r = 2 −10 = 0.1%. If follows that the value of r can be given to an accuracy of a few percent if the family tree of both people is known for a depth of five generations, and to an accuracy of a tenth of a percent if the ...

  8. Consanguine marriage - Wikipedia

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    Consanguine marriage is marriage between individuals who are closely related. Though it may involve incest, it implies more than the sexual nature of incest.In a clinical sense, marriage between two family members who are second cousins or closer qualifies as consanguineous marriage.

  9. Endogamy - Wikipedia

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    Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.