Sentence examples for by descent from inspiring English sources

"by descent" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone's familial lineage, typically in the form of "descended from." For example: "My family is descended from the ancient Samarian civilization."

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Fidel Castro is Galician by descent.

He is by descent half black African, half white American.

All living creatures are related by descent from common ancestors.

She describes her mother (Polish by descent) and father (Irish) as "readers and singers".

An Irish nationalist by descent, he was the least overtly Scots of the Red Clydesiders.

Rights over land are held jointly by descent groups and are vested in a titleholder.

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Here, we use an extended homozygosity-by-descent linkage method that is suitable for large complex pedigrees.

Identity-by-descent analysis was performed in Plink statistical software.

GWAS: genome wide association study; IBD: identity-by-descent.

Therefore, shared InDels represent identity-by-descent [ 31].

A genomic identity-by-descent (IBD) matrix, containing identity-by-descent probabilities within the known pedigree, depicts this LA information.

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