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Inbreeding

Inbreeding is the mating of individuals that are genetically related, that is, that share common ancestry, producing offspring with a higher degree of genetic similarity than would result from mating between unrelated individuals. It is an important concept in genetics, evolutionary biology, conservation, and animal…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 18× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2694-1198 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Inbreeding is the mating of individuals that are genetically related, that is, that share common ancestry, producing offspring with a higher degree of genetic similarity than would result from mating between unrelated individuals. It is an important concept in genetics, evolutionary biology, conservation, and animal and plant breeding. Because related parents are more likely to carry the same alleles, inbreeding increases the proportion of offspring that are homozygous, raising the chance that harmful recessive alleles are expressed. This can lead to inbreeding depression, a reduction in fitness traits such as fertility, survival, and resistance to disease, and it reduces genetic diversity within a population. At the same time, controlled inbreeding is used deliberately in breeding programs to fix desirable traits and to develop genetically uniform lines. In small or isolated populations, inbreeding is a particular concern for conservation, as the loss of diversity can threaten long-term viability. Research relevant to this topic, within the scope of Genetic Engineering, includes modeling work on inbreeding in a family tree and in a population, on migration and natural selection within populations, and on mutational processes, together illustrating how relatedness and population structure shape the genetic makeup of populations over time. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to inbreeding and the genetic and evolutionary dynamics of populations.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Inbreeding in a Family Tree and in a Population

Volobuev A.N.Corresponding author
Samara State Medical University. Department of Medical Physics. Samara, Russia
Exact topic Genetic Engineering doi:10.14302/issn.2694-1198.jge-20-3206
2020

Migration of a Population

Volobuev A.N.Corresponding author
Samara State Medical University. Department of Medical Physics. Samara, Russia
Exact topic Genetic Engineering Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2694-1198.jge-19-3141

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 18 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Inbreeding, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Genetic Engineering (ISSN 2694-1198).

Journal editorial board
Gabriela Roca · Germany Khalid Al-Nedawi · Canada Giuliana Giardino · Italy

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