Sentence examples for close familial from inspiring English sources

In our study, in order to reduce bias due to the possibility of close familial relationships, we have purposely drawn our cases from independently ascertained families where (to our knowledge) the family members are not known to be directly related to each other [ 1- 3].

Subsequent eras saw their share of political dynasties -- think of the Tafts or the Roosevelts or the Browns or the Humphreys -- but none of them enjoyed such a close familial hold on national political power as we are anticipating today.

When a teenage joyrider ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a close familial match to the perpetrator of an unsolved murder that took place in 1996.

Initially, the amendment would have authorized French consular officials to offer a would-be immigrant the chance to pay for a DNA test to supplement suspicious or nonexistent documentation and prove close familial ties with a legal resident in France.

The media have reflected the public sentiment that, at the very least, the close familial relationship between the two makes it hard for the Minister to be impartial during the investigation.

The university drew attention last week after a member of the Tuscaloosa campus's Alpha Gamma Delta chapter told the student newspaper, The Crimson White, that the sorority had considered race when it denied admission to a black woman with a sterling academic record and close familial ties to Alabama.

Even the closest familial relationships are fraught with lingering childhood slights, and I had already had one uncomfortable encounter with a sister over a cocktail ring my mother gave me.

The within-cohort prediction accuracy of dense whole-genome predictors is higher when we have closer familial relationships between training and testing samples, with accuracy in Orkney being higher than accuracy in Croatia for all three traits (Fig.  2A and B).

Whilst previously familial ALS or familial FTLD was classified if there was a close family member with the disease, the incidence of familial disease increases if both ALS and dementia are included [ 4].

"Over time, L.C. and Vilar developed a close, almost familial, relationship," it said.

Resentment is growing at the close – often familial – links between the key players among Vietnam's elite.