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Definition of Pedigree collapse

1. 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 ($\backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^n\; 2^i$, where $n$ represents ''number of generations''). ¹

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