(n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
(n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(2) As many as 7,717 babies born consecutively and 3,412 blood donors of Sardinian ancestry have been examined for the detection of the Hb J-Sardegna variant [alpha 50(CE8)His----Asp]; all subjects were from Northern Sardinia.
(3) This paper examines findings from the new ancestry question from the perspective of measuring ethnicity.
(4) The frequencies of the alleles in this population of Japanese ancestry are highly different from those of Brazilian Caucasoid blood donors but rather similar to those of Brazilian Negroid donors.
(5) Group A consists of French women of European ancestry, Group B, those born in the French Antilles of mixed ancestry, and Group C black African women with insignificant European admixture.
(6) Genetic markers in people of African ancestry and tables comparing Africans and Europeans are compiled to illustrate the blood differences.
(7) The two mutant alleles are common among caucasians of northern European ancestry; detection in genomic DNA samples of patients and carriers by hybridisation with oligonucleotides specific for the respective mutant alleles requires fractionation of restriction-enzyme-digested genomic DNA samples by gel electrophoresis.
(8) All 331 individuals were unrelated Caucasians of Danish ancestry.
(9) Furthermore, these results demonstrate that flypaper traps share close common ancestry with all other trap forms.
(10) The limited data that are available for Hispanic populations suggest that there is at least a 10-fold difference in risk between individuals of Hispanic ancestry in Colorado and Mexicans in Mexico City.
(11) 8 mature dogs of mixed sheep-dog ancestry 10-17 kg body weight were studied.
(12) An adjustment for the fact the same allele of a biallelic polymorphism may go to fixation in two inbred lines of common ancestry leads to the suggestion that in the stock from which these inbred lines were ultimately derived, there were some 11.0 percent paired and 5.3 percent unpaired polymorphisms in the average mouse.
(13) The effects of environmental exposures on the development of gastric and duodenal ulcers were investigated in a prospective study of 7,624 American men of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii.
(14) The same inversion is observed in the lymphocytes of the chimpanzee, indicating the ancestry of this inversion.
(15) Meanwhile, race was codified into laws determining that even one drop of African ancestry rendered a person legally black.
(16) The rate of change of amino acid sequence varies greatly from protein to protein, and this naturally affects how far back a given protein's ancestry can be traced.
(17) The first one comprises 57 clones that indicate relatives of nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the alpha-2 subclass of the class Proteobacteria; the second group of 7 clones originates from members of the order Planctomycetales that, however, reveal no close relationship to any of the described Planctomycetales species; 22 clones of the third group are indicative of members of a novel main line of descent, sharing a common ancestry with members of planctomycetes and chlamydiae.
(18) Major risk factors associated with cholesterol gallstone formation are American Indian ancestry, female sex, obesity, and ingestion of lithogenic drugs, such as estrogen-containing preparations and clofibrate.
(19) The Robertsonian translocation 5(13;14)(p11;q11) was studied in three families with probable common ancestry in Eastern Finland.
(20) Furthermore, close sequence similarity between BexA and BexB and products of the kpsT and kpsM genes at the Escherichia coli K5 capsulation locus (Smith et al., 1990--accompanying paper) suggests that capsulation genes in these organisms may have a common ancestry.
Parentage
Definition:
(n.) Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
(2) The spectra show no obvious parentage in the known c.d.
(3) Fossil eggs attributable to dinosaur (probably prosauropod) parentage that have been recovered from the early Jurassic Elliot Formation sediments at the Rooidraai locality possess shells that are similar to those of birds and crocodilians, and distinctly unlike those of chelonians and gekkonids.
(4) His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman" - appraising Gary Neville's parentage in 1996.
(5) The authors compared female adoptees of antisocial parentage with male and female controls, male adoptees of antisocial parentage, and male and female adoptees whose biological parents had other psychiatric conditions.
(6) She insisted that the race of the two parties – Martin was black, Zimmerman of mixed white-Hispanic parentage – never came up in the jury room.
(7) The presence of three pregnant Shetland mares in the same pasture, however, raised some questions about parentage, even though all three mares apparently gave birth to single foals within 6 weeks after the birth of the propositus.
(8) Will it have anything as loopy as the Mos Eisley cantina, or as horrifying as the revelation of Luke’s parentage?
(9) The high prevalence of otitis media in children of mixed parentage and in one particular family of European ancestry suggests the presence of intrinsic or pronicity factors that are seemingly transmissible.
(10) Much of the hope around breathing new life into the movement has rested on the relatively youthful shoulders of figures such as Rubio, whose Cuban parentage is seen as allowing the party to move away from its image as dominated by old, white men.
(11) Furthermore, the cogency of exclusion of parentage, the average power of exclusion and the probability of parentage is calculated using published mutation rates and gene frequencies of the four probes.
(12) In conclusion, use of the four gene probes has both theoretically and practically turned out to be a powerful method for parentage testing.
(13) The discrimination probability of AHSG is 0.5704 and the exclusion probability of parentage 0.1669.
(14) The two groups identified in Puerto Rico were: Puerto Rican islanders (adolescents who had never lived outside of Puerto Rico) and Puerto Rican immigrants (New York City-born youngsters of Puerto Rican parentage whose families had returned to live on the island).
(15) The validity of the Pi polymorphism for population genetics, linkage analysis and parentage testing is discussed.
(16) But why should a university look at anyone's parentage to decide whether to admit them or not?
(17) Intracranial haemorrhage is usually a very rare occurrence in the fetus before the onset of labour but we have identified major, mostly subdural, prenatal intracranial haemorrhages in 47 infants of immigrant Pacific Islander parentage.
(18) The basic parametres of the population structures, such as parentage and consanguinity, which is what physical anthropologists have been researching in recent years in Spain, form an important data base which must be integrated into future Genetic Epidemiology studies; these studies will result in its natural progression.
(19) Teenagers of mixed black and white parentage face peculiar difficulties in the developmental tasks of adolescence.
(20) From biostatistical evaluation of 21 genetic markers, including HLA phenotypes, a high value of probability for paternity, maternity and parentage was found between the child, the child's mother, the accused man and his mother.