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inbreeding coefficient

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inbreeding coefficient [′in‚brēd·iŋ ‚kō·ə‚fish·ənt]
(genetics)
A measure of the rate of inbreeding or the degree to which an individual is inbred. Also known as Wright's inbreeding coefficient.


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There were 85,000 ancestors, and the full inbreeding coefficient over five generations was less than one per cent.
Their parentage assignments produced estimates of the inbreeding coefficient of progeny ranging from 0 to 0.
 
 
 
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