Sentence examples for descent identified from inspiring English sources

In another episode in 1882, a man of Mexican descent identified as Augustin Agirer filed a complaint against an Anglo man who shot at his dog.

People who, before statehood, regarded themselves as of Portuguese or Chinese or Filipino descent identified themselves as Hawaiian in the later 1960s and '70s, when sovereignty became an issue and their drop of blood gave them access.

The first example was of African American descent, identified in a reference DNA panel from the International Cell Exchange (http://www.hla.ucla.edu/cellDNA/Cell/history.htm).htm

A meta-analysis of the IBC array of nearly 93,000 individuals of European descent identified three additional BMI loci (TOMM40/ APOE/ APOC1, SREBF2, and NTRK2) and confirmed seven of the previous GWAS-identified BMI loci [ 21].

A recent GWAS of generalized aggressive periodontitis (gAgP) among a sample of whites of European descent identified associations with a susceptibility locus on 9p34.3 intronic to the glycosyltransferase 6 domain containing 1 (geneD1) gene and a shared susceptibility locus on 9p21.3 for both gAgP and CHD (35, 36).

Maller and coworkers[13] performed a case-control study drawn from a US-based population of European descent, identifying a previously unrecognized common, non-coding variant in CFH (rs1410996) that was associated with advanced AMD as well as the previously recognized Y402H change.

Participants of Mexican descent were identified by ancestry variables when a participant, parent, or grandparent indicated nativity in Mexico.

Two recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of blood pressure, each involving ∼30 000 participants of European descent, have identified common genetic variants at 13 loci that are associated with blood pressure or hypertension.

The 50.5 million Americans of Hispanic descent are identified as sharing a distinct "ethnicity" by the Census Bureau; 64% of Hispanic Americans are of Mexican descent.

Neighbors said they were of Jamaican descent, and identified the tenant in the second-floor apartment at 276 West 127th Street, where the bodies were found, as Linton Mattis.

Nasim Aghdam, 39, an American of Iranian descent, was identified by police as the shooter who injured three people in California yesterday.