Sustainable Breeding of Pedigree Dogs
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  For the calculation of the inbreeding coefficient, it is important to have sufficiently deep pedigrees.
Three generations is in most cases insufficient.

The downside of inbreeding, is that the unfavorable genes are fixed, together with the desired genes.
Each dog caries a certain number of defective genes, that remain invisible in impure state.
Inbreeding increases the possibility that these defective genes come together, and that some puppies will show the defect.