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Re:Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemp... by wyattpeak on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:36PM (#21175685)
Simple first cousins have a coefficient of relationship of 0.125, which is below the threshold considered in the paper.

Received wisdom is that a coefficient below 0.25 doesn't cause serious deleterious effect. I have no idea if that's well supported, but I imagine it's relevant to why it wasn't studied.

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