Quick Take Inbreeding occurs when relatives mate and can cause inbreeding depression, with abnormalities, health issues, and ...

This morning you may see that we have extended the computations of the Coefficient of Inbreeding and Coefficient of Relatedness to 10 generations. These coefficients were previously calculated over 8 ...

Among the questions that we are most frequently asked with regard to suggest matings is "what about the inbreeding to....?" or "is inbreeding to x a good thing?" Unfortunately, as a generalized ...

Quick Take Dog breeding genetics explain how dominant, additive, and recessive genes shape traits and disease risk in litters. Outcrossing expands the gene pool and lowers recessive disease risk, ...

Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, may have been right to worry that his children’s health had been affected by the inbreeding in his own family, especially that of his wife, Emma ...