Sentence examples for genetic categories from inspiring English sources

Assuming that sociopolitical categories are the same as genetic categories can lead to erroneous assumptions, for example that genetic tests for ancestry represent a person's ethnicity.

Until the early 20th century, Nacional, a member of the Forastero family, one of the three main genetic categories of cacao, was widely grown in Ecuador, then the world's largest cacao producer.

More specifically, I will argue that specific enactments of population identities as genetic categories are materially embedded in bioinformatics tools.

The visualisations can thus add to easy acceptance of the connections between existing populations and newly created genetic categories as established by the software.

They are divided into two genetic categories: a category without distinct pattern karyotypic changes and the other category showing unique translocations that originate gene rearrangements.

Naturalisation of population identities as genetic categories can lead to their essentialisation as natural phenomena, meaning that they are seen as a reality of nature (Epstein 2007; M'charek 2005).

The creation of the Genome of the Netherlands is in itself a way of biologising nationality in the sense that Dutchness is enacted as a genetic category.

With the routine use of the Genome of the Netherlands as reference database, Dutchness as a genetic category could become biologised along the lines of autochoon and allochtoon distinctions.

Through these connections the database materially connects this naturalised definition to individual genomes and thus bodies, enacting (Dutch) nationality as a genetic category.

Here, it is the database itself that, through its contents of 750 sequenced genomes, enacts Dutchness as a genetic category by representing the genomic variation within the Dutch indigenous population.

The configuration of the Genome of the Netherlands database, whose parameters are more or less random: parents born in the Netherlands, Caucasian phenotypic features and the availability of certain samples in the participating Dutch biobanks, enacts Dutchness as a genetic category.