ancestry

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The variant is high in people with European ancestry - 64% carry one copy, while 16% of people carry two copies, she says.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Instead of processing it on CODIS, they used another part of the DNA to search for potential relatives of the unknown killer in ancestry databases.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

The highest rates were found among people with ancestry from north west Ireland, where about one in 54 people are estimated to carry the variant.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

He played at the field hockey World Cup for his native South Africa, but holds an Italian passport now through his ancestry.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

Given the inheritance rules for mitochondrial DNA, the conclusion that Indians and Siberians share common ancestry seems, to geneticists, inescapable.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann