pedigree collapse (English, noun)
expansion: pedigree collapse (uncountable)
Senses:
qualifier: genealogy
glosses: 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 (∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ 2ⁱ, where n represents the number of generations).
tags: uncountable
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