In population genetics, there is a method of measuring how inbred a certain individual is, known as the inbreeding coefficient. Previously, I used to this technique to examine the amount of ...

How similar are fictional superheroes to real people? Computational biologist Samuel Arbesman explores the relative amount of inbreeding in human history and the X-Men family tree.

From the family tree they worked out an “inbreeding coefficient” for each marriage – a figure reflecting the proportion of inherited genes in the children that would be identical from both ...

Using an extensive family tree spanning 20-plus generations, the scientists determined that the average inbreeding coefficient of the Habsburgs they analyzed was .093.

Our results indicate a single estimated cluster and a relatively high overall inbreeding coefficient of 0.250, which correspond to co-ancestry of one full-sib family or a mixture of half-sibs and ...

The degree of differentiation of gene frequency as measured by inbreeding coefficient is obtained for the ABO and Rh blood groups in the United Kingdom. The total inbreeding coefficients in the United ...

Married to a first cousin and with a family tree rife with generations of inbreeding, Darwin was concerned that what he had learned about plants might be true for people as well.