ancestry
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Sickle-cell disease, also called SCD, disproportionately appears in people of African ancestry, affecting around 90,000 black Americans today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
About 22% said being Jewish is a matter of culture, while 21% said it was a matter of ancestry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Modern taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, increasingly attempts to reflect actual evolutionary relationships by grouping species according to shared ancestry.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
But DNA tests have revealed he has Turkish and southern European ancestry instead.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Outlanders, foreigners, and freedmen were not allowed inside the Black Wall save at the invitation of those who dwelt within, scions of the Old Blood who could trace their ancestry back to Valyria itself.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The Latino vote is both vast and diverse, encompassing communities of varied ancestries, economic power and relative size.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
The blood samples in this dataset were collected from a cohort of 503 healthy donors of diverse Asian ancestries, spanning East, Southeast, and South Asian populations.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
Census making it easier in 2020 to identify multiple racial and ethnic ancestries, the percentage of multiracial Americans blossomed to 33.8 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
He hopes to similarly investigate how these different non-European ancestries influence brain genetics.
From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2024
They are a merry, well-nourished collection of waifs and strays, of all ancestries, Hindu, Muhammadan, and Christian, mostly gathered in through the wards of the Mission Hospitals.
From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Alice B. Van Doren
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