(1) As an extension to the variety of existing techniques using polymorphic DNA markers, the Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique may be used in molecular ecology to determine taxonomic identity, assess kinship relationships, analyse mixed genome samples, and create specific probes.
(2) This paper presents a FORTRAN IV subroutine to calculate inbreeding and kinship coefficients from pedigree information in a diploid population without self-fertilization.
(3) The gender-specific kinship relationship of patients and their care providers has not generally been investigated in studies of caregiver burden and well-being.
(4) The findings suggest a genetic kinship among the Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, and Jersey, on the one hand, and between the Holstein and Guernsey, on the other.
(5) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(6) The experience of Berkeley House, a psychiatric halfway house, is related as an example of a program that has achieved successful community tenure for its patients through the creation of an extended psychosocial kinship system.
(7) Seen in this context, structural features of caring that are celebrated as strengths (its base in kinship relations where carers are unpaid, for example), can be experienced as problematic by those involved in caring.
(8) Of them each of thirty-eight groups had an adult female "nurse" monkey, who had no kinship with any of the 4 weanlings.
(9) Among female first cousins, however, patrilateral pairs have the highest degree of kinship and cross cousins the lowest in respect to X-linked genes.
(10) Demographic factors related to higher kinship levels include young age at marriage, large sibship size for both husband and wife, husband being a farmer, and marriages occurring in the marriage season (November or December).
(11) Surface EMG has been used to determine the average muscle fiber conduction velocity (MFCV) and power spectra of the m. biceps of 10 patients and 15 asymptomatic offspring of a large kinship with familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HOPP).
(12) Population-genetic surveys show that for the relatives of patients with type I diabetes mellitus (the 1st degree of kinship) a risk of developing the same type of diabetes is 2-5%.
(13) Although Burt's kinship correlations are higher than the average of other studies, his results are generally consistent with other data.
(14) Numerous authors have studied human cemetery remains with an eye toward identifying different socially stratified ethnic or kinship groups within the same population.
(15) A founder effect, or genetic drift, accounts for the familial aggregations of autosomal recessive and dominant conditions, some diseases of multifactorial determination, and other inherited conditions in Canadian kinships descending from this ancestral group.
(16) Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013 , where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system.
(17) Kinship placements have a good track record, and with appropriate support and occasionally legal intervention, must not be overlooked."
(18) The clinicogenealogical method using a genetico-mathematic analysis was employed to examine 50 probands with sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia (126 relatives of the first degree kinship).
(19) Both arguments draw on subject matter in psychoanalysis, physics, evolutionary biology, common-sense psychology, history, and medicine to arrive at a fundamental caveat for all of the sciences: Even when the thematic kinship (or so-called "meaning connection") between events is indeed of very high degree, this fact itself does not license the inference of a causal linkage between these events.
(20) Despite the similar emphasis on manpower and kinship criteria as the basis for the admission of immigrants, differences between Canada and the United States exist with respect to the importance of immigration for the respective economies, the organization of immigration, the formal regulations, and the size and composition of migrant streams.
Kinsmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Kinsman
Example Sentences:
(1) The HLA haplotypes were defined in a series including 11 patients with hereditary angioneurotic edema (HANE), five symptom-free subjects with pathological laboratory findings characteristic of HANE, and their 33 healthy kinsmen.
(2) In addition, the individuals comprising Semai fission groups are kinsmen which implies that the number of independent genomes represented is markedly less than the number of individual migrants (the lineal effect).
(3) On his first visit to Scotland, MacIsaac travelled to the Hebrides and landed on the island of Eriskay to seek out his kinsmen.
(4) Knowledgeable individuals offer special limited treatments as kinsmen or friends but are seldom sought after.
(5) After the war Dr. Gibson worked at the Montreal Neurological Institute until 1948 and then by a circuitous route went on to UBC as Kinsmen professor of neurologic research.
(6) Bedouin have attacked police stations, blocked access to towns and taken hostages to show their discontent with what they see as their poor treatment by Cairo and to press for the release of jailed kinsmen.
(7) The values of serum and urinary uric acid and those of total oxypurines in urine of same kinsmen of the three patients have been evaluated; all these values were in the normal range.
(8) I never meant to spend two hours before my computer, thinking of ways to explain why on earth I meddle with homosexuality just to break the hearts of my kinsmen, disappoint my father and worry my fiancé; to cause my mother and daughter to be pitied.