Pedigree collapse

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Etymology

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Noun

1. Template:Lb 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 ($\sum _{i=1}^n{2}^i$, where $n$ represents the number of generations).
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