Genome ghost
Genome ghost or "ghosts in genomes" is a term that describes the possible genomes within an individual or population genome(s).
For example, a Mozart ghost in a genome means the genomic entity that can be the same as Mozart, the musician. The idea of genome ghost is possible because one single individual or a population has almost all the genetic module such as haploblocks. Creating a Mozart is a matter of reconstructing him from a person or a population. Therefore, genomes contain such ghosts.
The idea is not an invention of one person but it has been around for long time. In 1995-96, Jong Bhak described it to describe the concept of "the whole species is you and you are the whole species". It means that unlike prokaryotes, a highly integrated network being such as a human, is a multiple layers of biological information object societies (groups, entities, clusters, etc).
Your ancestor is present in your genome as a genomic ghost.
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