Sentence examples for distinguished ancestry from inspiring English sources

Virginia Woolf declared, "his book has a distinguished ancestry, but it was born only the day before yesterday".

He had made a favorable impression on the Nowair family, who were a little dazzled by his distinguished ancestry.

The book's distinguished ancestry originates in Plato; some passages resemble the philosopher's odder dialogues, minus the rational presence of Socrates.

Mr. Carter was an avid genealogist and was proud of his family's distinguished ancestry, most notably Daniel Carroll, of whom he was a direct descendant, who signed the Constitution.

It is important to distinguish ancestry from race.

We evaluated these AIMs on a test cohort of individuals from geographically distinct areas of Europe and validated their ability to distinguish northwest southeast ancestry (data not shown).

A 2-step procedure was used to identify key ancestry-predictive eQTL satisfying the following 2 conditions: 1) the eQTL can regulate ancestry-informative transcripts, and 2) the eQTL can distinguish samples from different populations.

Taken together, the results provide evidence that a minimal panel of 36 MSATs can be used to distinguish human ancestries from five major continental regions with the same efficiency as a larger panel of 78 MSATs.

In our race- and ethnicity-matched study population, we have previously calculated genetic ancestry on the basis of a panel of 96 ancestry informative markers selected to distinguish continental origin among California Hispanics [ 19].

Second, when multiple genetic loci are examined, it is possible to distinguish people with ancestry from different geographical regions.

Often they do not: selection constrains sequences at multiple sites (covarions), which gives rise to sequence similarities that are hard to distinguish from common ancestry, whether vertical or lateral.