English-Finnish translations for pedigree collapse

Definition of pedigree collapse

• 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 the number of generations

Related words

• pedigree
• pedigreeless
• nonpedigreed
• pedigree selection
• pedigree cattle
• pedigree dog
• pedigree-based selection