Sentence examples for of doubtful parentage from inspiring English sources

Macdonald's riposte to label Bottomley "a man of doubtful parentage who had lived all his life on the threshold of jail"—backfired when the latter published Macdonald's birth certificate which showed that the Labour leader was himself illegitimate.

Using this Z total value, only 34 combinations were censored, whereas the number of remaining doubtful parentages was minimized (four cases).

In contrast, maintaining a GenCall score of 0.15 will result in an increased number of rejected or doubtful parentages due to miscalled genotypes.

In a final risk/reward analysis the best Z total value was chosen by minimizing the number of unsolved and doubtful parentages in parallel.

Censoring only those SNPs with a combined (offspring and parents) Z-transformed downward GenCall score of > 5.0 as threshold calculated for both BeadChips used for parentage control, the number of rejected and doubtful parentages can be substantially reduced without affecting the true exclusions.

When applied to real data from 1750 single parentage assessments, the optimal threshold was determined to be Z = 5.0, with only 34 censored cases and reduction to four (0.2%) doubtful parentages.

The influence on the parentage evaluation is substantial, since the number of doubtful cases decreased from more than 400 to only less than 10; the number of exclusions was also greatly reduced to 35 (110 without censoring weak calls).

735, may make these cases of doubtful authority.

Some of us have upper-class backgrounds; others have "real" salt-of-the-earth parentage.

"Given the possibility of false claims of parentage, confirming parentage is critical to ensure that children are returned to their parents, not to potential traffickers," the motion says.

Nothing is known of his parentage.