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Some theoretical results of continued brother-sister mating

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The progress of inbreeding is considered where more than two allelomorphs are concerned. This increases the time needed to attain a given degree of homozygosis by about a generation. The time taken to reach a given degree of purity (i.e. the condition where mates are like homozygotes) is from one to two generations longer than that needed to reach the same degree of homozygosis.

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Haldane, J.B.S. Some theoretical results of continued brother-sister mating. Journ. of Genetics 34, 265–274 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02982267

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