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Coefficients of Inbreeding and Relationship

Wright, Sewall·1922·The American Naturalist
DOI 10.1086/279872
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IN the breeding of domestic animals consanguineous matings are frequently made. Occasionally matings are made between very close relatives-sire and daughter, brother and sister, etc.-but as a. rule such close inbreeding is avoided and there is instead an attempt to concentrate the blood of some noteworthy individual by what is known as line breeding. No regular system of mating such as might be followed with laboratory animals is practicable as a rule. The importance of having a coefficient by means of which the degree of inbreeding may be expressed has been brought out by Pearl' in a number of papers published between 1913 and 1917. His coefficient is based on the smaller number of ancestors in each generation back of an inbred individual, as compared with the maximum possible number. A separate coefficient is obtained for each generation by the formula

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Authors
Wright, S.
Venue
The American Naturalist
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
1922-07
Volume
56
Issue
645
Pages
330-338
ISSN
  • 0003-0147 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5323
DOI
10.1086/279872
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journal article
Language
en
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