The phrase "of different descent" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people who have ethnic backgrounds that are different from one another. For example, "The students in his class were of different descent, representing many different countries."
This method of unlinking topologies for a priori partitions has precedence in genetic studies that have investigated topological incongruence due to different descent histories of different genes [49], [50], [60] [63].
That is, a genetic variant that's widespread in one ethnic group, like the Maya, may hardly ever show up in people of different ancestry, like people of European descent.
Furthermore this preliminary analysis was only based on the essential genes of B. subtilis, and it is well established that functional ubiquity does not equate to gene ubiquity: a same function could be essential in other clades, but performed by a gene of a completely different descent.
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of TCF7L2 have been consistently associated with T2DM in populations of different ethnic descent, making TCF7L2 one of the most important locus known today to predispose for T2DM [7]–[9].
For studies including subjects of different racial descents, data were extracted separately for each race (categorized as Caucasian, Asian, and others).
The agency was convinced, she said, that "these results are indicative for experiences of different people of African descent also from third or fourth generation, fifth generation".
This definition encompasses small-scale evolution (changes in gene — or more precisely and technically, allele — frequency in a population from one generation to the next) and large-scale evolution (the descent of different species from a common ancestor over many generations).
It has originated through hybridization of an introduced A. mellifera scutellata ancestor from Africa with honey bees of different subspecies of European descent, characterized by phenotypic and genomic displacement of the European by the African ancestor [ 18, 19].
In bioinformatics, it is mainly used in constructing the so-called phylogenetic tree, which is a diagram that depicts the lines of evolutionary descent of different species, organisms, or genes from a common ancestor [ 5].
"Merging different body parts of ancestors into a single person could represent the merging of different families and their lines of descent," Parker-Pearson said.
