Sentence examples for unknown ancestry from inspiring English sources

Since the publication of my second book One Drop, I have heard from hundreds of people who similarly discovered later in life a previously unknown ancestry, some of whom have had their sense of themselves changed, seemingly overnight, as a result.

Although he had been the Lincoln family pet for five years when Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the yellowish, floppy-eared dog of unknown ancestry never made it to Washington.

The 3rd dimension is primarily defined by two outliers (Figure 2F) with unknown ancestry.

Previous genetic surveys investigating the origin of captive individuals of unknown ancestry provided managers critical historical information for maintaining the integrity of distinct lineages [4], [5].

The recently accumulated population-level haplotypic and genotypic data now available for C. elephantopus add a critical reference population to the existing database of 11 extant species for investigating the origin of captive individuals of unknown ancestry.

These studies collectively examined 156 individuals of unknown ancestry held in captive populations on three continents, assigning them to the species level and, in many cases, to their population of origin [4], [5].

As of 2011 12, TT had a population of 1,328,019, with diverse self-reported ancestries, including East Indian (35%), African (34%), mixed (23%; [African/East Indian, 8% and mixed/other, 15%]), other (<1%), and unknown ancestries (6%) 12.

In Figure 2E&F, the CA formed a tight cluster (similar as in Figures 1E&F), although there were a few outliers with unknown origin of ancestry.

The smoothed assignment method (SAM) combines smoothed reference maps of allele frequency variation and an MCMC algorithm to generate a posterior distribution of the probability that samples of unknown origin share ancestry with samples of known origin from the allele frequency variation map of georeferenced samples [ 11].

The Tiger Species Survival Plan has condemned the breeding of white tigers, alleging they are of mixed ancestry and of unknown lineage.

PCRs were carried out in 25 µL volumes: 18.25 µL water, 2.5 µL 10X buffer (New England Biolabs), 1 µL (400 µM) dNTPs, 0.25 µL Taq polymerase (New England Biolabs #M0267L), 1 µL (0.8 µM) per primer, and 1 µL (40 ng) of purified Vigna mitochondrial DNA (from cv. Berken) or 2 µL (30 ng) of total Vigna DNA (from material of unknown genetic ancestry purchased at local grocery store).