relatedness

Example Sentences

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The team ran the data through a computer program that compares similar snippets of DNA to estimate relatedness; they reconstructed a rough family tree dating back 18,000 years.

From Science Magazine

We also find that rates of worry have a strong and significant positive association with Trump's vote share, but this is offset by high levels of relatedness.

From Salon

But then is it the bare fact of biological relatedness that matters, or is it the fact of being connected through family relationships, so that the duties extend to adopted members of our family?

From New York Times

At every stage, Moore must gauge relatedness in the paper trail against relatedness suggested by the actual DNA and resolve any discrepancies that arise.

From New York Times

Some of it is rooted in “old battles about origins, about the age of the Earth, the relatedness of species and the place of humans among them.”

From Washington Post