"maternal descent" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a person's heritage or lineage tracing back through their mother's side of the family, similar to "patrilineal descent". For example, "My maternal descent is Irish and Italian".
Longhouses sheltered families related through maternal descent.
But at some time from 200 B.C. to A.D. 500, Jewish status came to be defined by maternal descent.
They were important in ancient Israel, but sometime between 200 B.C. and A.D. 500 their functions were taken over by rabbis, and Jewish status came to be defined by the biologically more reliable standard of maternal descent.
They were children of Rupert's Land fur trade typically of Orcadian, Scottish, or English paternal descent and Aboriginal maternal descent.
Although Domnall had previously opposed Ua Briain over the kingship of Munster, he was the son of Ua Briain's brother, and further possessed strong familial connections with the Isles through his maternal descent from Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin and the Isles (died 1064 or 1065).
An estimated 250,000 of immigrants are not halachically Jewish (which only recognises maternal descent), but rather considered Jewish under the law of return due to having at least one Jewish grandparent, or being the spouse of Jewish immigrants who received Israeli citizenship according to the Law of Return.
This necessitates a reconsideration of the mechanisms by which mitochondrial genomes evolve since it allows for the possibility of the introduction of foreign genetic material into a system previously thought to be constrained to inheritance through (typically maternal-) descent.
The results suggest that the southeast Bantu speakers have a composite origin on the maternal line of descent, with ∼44% of lineages deriving from West Africa, ∼21% from either West or Central Africa, ∼30% from East Africa, and ∼5% from southern African Khoisan-speaking groups.
Dr. King said tests conducted at three laboratories in England and France had found that the descendants' mitochondrial DNA, a genetic element inherited through the maternal line of descent, matched that extracted from the parking lot skeleton.
The majority of the cultures of this region, however, were small chiefdoms, in which a single village or a small group of nearby communities was led by a chief whose semidivine position was inherited through the maternal line of descent.
The mitochondrial DNA from the skeletons was compared against mitochondrial DNA from relatives of the imperial family in the maternal line of descent, including the Tsarina's great-nephew Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and was found to be a match.
