Sentence examples for firstborn offspring from inspiring English sources

Another myth, he said, depicts the taro stem as the firstborn offspring of the sky father and his daughter the stars.

A node in the network of kins represents a firstborn offspring resulting from a parental union belonging to the network of families.

The highest risk group included firstborn offspring of mothers aged ≥35 years and fathers aged ≥40 years, with a risk 3 times that of the reference group (Table 4).

Firstborn offspring of 2 older parents were 3 times more likely to develop autism than were third- or later-born offspring of mothers aged 20 34 years and fathers aged <40 years (odds ratio = 3.1, 95% confidence interval: 2.0, 4.7).

Although a cohort study in the USA found no association between birth order and total cord blood IgE level [ 8], another recent study reported a significant interaction between birth order and IL13 polymorphisms affecting allergic sensitization: the effect of IL13 was restricted only to firstborn children, suggesting adverse prenatal programming in firstborn offspring [ 9].

A total of 110 419 father-firstborn-offspring pairs were identified.

Noah was a vastly inferior player to McEnroe, but McEnroe was choosing to regard tennis as his Pyrrhic victory in their long game of life because Noah has sired more successful athletic offspring — his firstborn, Joakim, is a Chicago Bulls power forward; no McEnroe child has played more than an indifferent year of college tennis — and Noah is a European pop star.

We included several variables as covariates: parental early childhood household socioeconomic status (quintiles, lowest as reference category), parental birth order (categorized into firstborns and non-firstborns), maternal age at delivery of offspring (categorized as <18y or ≥18y), type of nutrition supplementation received in Guatemala, and offspring sex.

By contrast, we found that, among male offspring in this population, firstborn sons had a significantly higher fitness than their brothers, and middleborn sons tended to have the lowest fitness.

The likelihood of being a firstborn was not statistically associated with offspring sex, family income, or maternal height.

These are the offspring of Aaron and Moses on this day: Aaron's sons, the firstborn, Nadab and Abihu.