Sentence examples for due to ancestry from inspiring English sources

The full range of functions of a given trait is frequently not evident to non-specialists, let alone whether that trait is being selected for in the local environment or whether it is persisting due to ancestry and/or constraint.

Genetic structure due to ancestry has been well documented among many divergent human populations.

Genetic association studies in admixed populations can be confounded by population stratification in which false-positive disease associations arise due to ancestry differences in cases and controls.

The differences detected are not necessarily due to ancestry, but may be a consequence of the fact that the two population samples were drawn from different datasets, genotyped on different platforms, at different sites.

The limited number of cases and controls also affected our ability to conduct a formal admixture mapping study on chromosome 12 as there is reduced power to detect a less than 2-fold risk due to ancestry [25].

Our study sample size of 509 cases and 508 controls was underpowered for loci conferring 1.5-fold or less risk due to ancestry.

The current analytical approach using genome-wide average estimates will control for confounding due to global ancestry but will not control for confounding due to the local ancestry effect because the global ancestry information is obtained from all markers across the genome and may not accurately reflect local ancestry variation.

Why do textbooks define homology as similarity due to common ancestry, then claim that it is evidence or common ancestry — a circular argument masquerading as scientific evidence?

The variable number of linkage groups identified in the hybrid maps (28 and 29) is likely due to mixed ancestry of the source RBT stock.

Concerning question about homologous structure, 38.4% of the participants stated correctly that the wing of the bat and the forelimb of the dog are similar structures due to common ancestry, while 27.3% acknowledged that they have a different ancestry but a common function.

These studies showed that clinical isolates differed phenotypically from laboratory and wine strains, but could not exclude the possibility that the observed association between clinical origin and a virulence trait is due to shared ancestry rather than host adaptation.