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May 19, 2011 1:22 am at 1:22 am
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PBA and mod-80, most of us don’t have 1024 distinct ancestors going back ten generations, since there’s some overlap due to inbreeding. This phenomenom, called pedigree collapse, is well-documented in the general population but I’d guess it’s more pronounced among Jews.