ANCESTRY

Pronunție (USA): (GB):

Traducere în limba română

ancestry substantiv

1. obârşie, origine, ascendenţă; neam.

2. (fam.) străbuni; strămoşi.

3. obârşie / descendenţă nobilă.

4. arbore genealogic.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Medical genetics studies have so far predominantly been conducted in populations of European ancestry, meaning that any medical implications that these variants might have are not known.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

She had a cultivated mind, and was, generally speaking, rational and consistent; but she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

DNA can give us clues to our ancestry – for example, the pattern of genetic variants in an individual’s DNA might be more common in people of European ancestry than it is in people of Asian ancestry.

(Interplay between mitochondria and the nucleus may have implications for changing cell’s ‘batteries’, University of Cambridge)

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