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ancestral inbreeding: a standalone construct

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ancestralinbreeding1 CONSTRUCTAncestral inbreedingBALLOU · ANIMAL BREEDING

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Animal breeding

the share of an individual's genome that was already inbred in its ancestors, used to test whether past inbreeding has purged harmful alleles.

In animal breeding, ancestral inbreeding refers to the share of an individual's genome that was already inbred in its ancestors, used to test whether past inbreeding has purged harmful alleles. This meaning comes from Ballou (1997) in Journal of Heredity.[1]

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  1. Ballou, J. D. (1997). Ancestral Inbreeding Only Minimally Affects Inbreeding Depression in Mammalian Populations. Journal of Heredity, 88(3), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a023085

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