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Linebreeding is a term commonly used to describe milder forms of inbreeding. Typically it involves arranging matings so that one or more ancestors occur more than once in a pedigree, while avoiding close inbreeding. Because many breeders apply the term “inbreeding” only to close inbreeding, we shall refer to inbreeding/linebreeding in answering other questions.
