Sentence examples for maternal ancestry from inspiring English sources
I agree with an April 9 letter writer that maternal ancestry has been overlooked for too long.
The study looked at mitochondrial DNA, which gives information about maternal ancestry.
For instance, we are able to trace the maternal ancestry of over 99percentt of Europeans to only seven women living between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago.
Jewish law tracing back almost 2,000 years states that Jewish affiliation is determined by maternal ancestry, so the Y chromosome study addresses the question of how much non-Jewish men may have contributed to Jewish genetic diversity.
Overall, at least 80 percent of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women indigenous to Europe, and 8 percent from the Near East, with the rest uncertain, the researchers estimate.
Some studies have suggested that the two varieties split about 6.6 million to 8.8 million years ago, but these estimates were based on mitochondrial DNA samples that consider only maternal ancestry.
Evaluation of mitocondrial DNA allows separation of American Zebu cattle, according to its maternal lineage ancestry, into two groups: one with only Bos taurus indicus mtDNA (Bi-mtDNA) and other with Bos taurus taurus mtDNA (Bt-mtDNA) [ 12].
Here we ask whether phylogenetic analysis, based on highly resolved mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) phylogenies can discern among maternal ancestries of the Diaspora.
The migratory dynamics which took place over the last 2 ky in the hyperarid Central Sahara, and which possibly led small Tuareg groups with different maternal ancestries to mix and separate from one another [29], [41], [42], could explain the presence of the other two clades, H1w and H1x (respectively 53% and 9% of the total H1 mtDNAs analyzed), in the Libyan Tuareg sample.
We have also described a noticeable European/Native American, as well as European/African sex bias between the paternal and maternal ancestries in Cuba.
If specified as homogeneous paternal and maternal ancestries, we pick M instead of M + N ancestries and use the same M ancestries for both paternal and maternal haplotype simulation.
