Sentences with phrase «maternal line»

The finding highlights the importance ancient Egyptians placed on maternal lines of descent, Drosou's group contends.

The research mentioned on maternal line mitochondria and the paternal Y is the work of Bryan Sykes who wrote The Seven Daughter's of Eve and Adam's Curse.

So we've agreed that if we combine his strength with mine, we can create a breakthrough outcome in curing maternal line genetic disease, on which he is now focusing,» the paper quotes Hwang as saying.

With a 99.8 per cent probability that the descendants and the mummy were all from the same maternal line, the scientists and historians were confident that the mummy is Anna Catharina Bischoff.

In our August Nonfiction Top Pick, I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This, Nadja Spiegelman tackles the eternally baffling mother - daughter relationship as she explores four generations of her own maternal line.

A2 is a very ancient maternal line.

To clarify whether the genetic maternal line of the Iceman, who lived in the eastern Alps over 5,300 years ago, has left its mark in current populations, researchers at the European Academy of Bolzano / Bozen (EURAC) have now compared his mitochondrial DNA with 1,077 modern samples.

Mark Zuckerberg is half Bulgarian and he was named after his grandfather Bulgarian - Marco on his maternal line.

Hamer and his colleagues conducted extensive interviews with 76 pairs of gay brothers and their family members and found that homosexuality seemed to be inherited through the maternal line.

The Genographic Project studies the SNPs in that mitochondrial DNA to see what mutations were passed along through the maternal line.

But since this DNA is inherited only from the maternal line, it does not go through the normal genetic process of division and recombination.

Many written sources from ancient Egypt show precedence to the maternal line, «from the official lists of Egypt's early kings whose names are accompanied by those of their mothers to nonroyal individuals, who likewise cite only their mother's name,» Fletcher explains.

The side dish of ancestry information enabled me to trace my maternal line back 35,000 years.

The ancient Romanian woman's DNA came from a maternal line that originated in West Asia after humans initially left Africa but then ended up in North Africa, the scientists propose.

Moreover, since the mixture of mitochondrial genes is passed down the maternal line, the altered genetic blueprint of such female babies could affect future generations.

It has identified a gene which, when inherited from the maternal line, seems to sensitise immune cells in the nose and lungs to common allergens such as grass pollen.

Moreover, female giraffes likely do not migrate across long distances, thereby contributing to a clear separation of the maternal lines.»

Because mtDNA is inherited only through the maternal line, this shows that male dogs are only mating successfully with dingo bitches, but not vice versa.

One is suppressed and inactive while the other is fully functional, depending on whether they have come from the paternal or the maternal line.

They found that nine of the individuals shared the same mitochondrial DNA, meaning they were related through the maternal line, the team writes today in Nature Communications.

Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, where 1000 years ago elite status may have passed along the maternal line.

Then, the team used genetic analysis to look at mitochondrial DNA, which can pass only along the maternal line.

«The fact that all of these individuals are in the same crypt and have the same mitochondrial DNA indicates that there's a linkage through the maternal line,» Kennett says.

Now, using ancient DNA from the bones of the man and 13 others buried alongside him, scientists have come to a surprising conclusion — elite status passed down the maternal line, from mothers to their sons and daughters.

If being Jewish is defined as genetically descending from the Israelites through the maternal line, then many Ashkenazi Jews fail the test, according to this data.

One way to reconcile his team's findings with those of other researchers, he says, is to assume that the founders of the male Ashkenazi lineages were indeed originally from the Middle East, but that the maternal line arose in Europe much earlier.

Demethylation on the maternal line took place much more slowly.

A family pedigree provides support for a TEX11 mutation causing infertility, passed down the maternal line.

Writing in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the authors say that the coburial of two siblings who share a mother adds to the evidence that ancient Egyptians gave precedence to the maternal line.

But the pattern is indicative of a trait passed down the maternal line on the X chromosome, inherited from the mother.

They extracted its DNA and sequenced the genome of the mitochondria or mtDNA, a small part of the genome that is passed down along the maternal line and occurs in many copies per cell.

The study concluded that the Iceman's maternal line — named K1f — is now extinct.

In mice, IGT was transferred through both parental lineages, whereas obesity only advances through the maternal line.

They (in common with around 1.5 % of Britain's population carrying mtDNA haplogroup U5) shared a common ancestor with the Cheddar Man through his maternal line.

Parkinson's disease and mitochondrial dysfunction, which can lead to the accelerated breakdown of heart, brain and muscle tissue, are two conditions that could be removed from the maternal line with the procedure.

A child conceived using the procedure would have the DNA of his father, mother and the surrogate mother who «donated» her healthy mitochondria to the zygote, which would be passed on for the rest of the maternal line of that family, because a child's mitochondrial DNA is almost always exclusively inherited from the mother.

Proponents say it's a medical breakthrough that allows families to end maternally inherited health issues that have existed in their maternal lines forever; critics call it an effort to make «designer babies» free of any health issues.

If you're a woman, the nonprofit genetics lab Fellman uses will send you back information about your ancient family history through your X chromosome, or maternal line.

Artforum wrote of the show: «The exhibition's title refers to the maternal line in a family and is appropriate for a show comprising only works by women artists.