ANCESTRY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

Synonyms:

ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("ancestry" is a kind of...):

hereditary pattern; inheritance ((genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents)

Attribute:

purebred (bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain)

crossbred (bred from parents of different varieties or species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ancestry"):

descent; extraction; origin (properties attributable to your ancestry)

bloodline; pedigree (ancestry of a purebred animal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The descendants of one individual

Example:

his entire lineage has been warriors

Synonyms:

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("ancestry" is a kind of...):

family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ancestry"):

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)

side (a family line of descent)

Credits

Context examples:

The combined data included approximately 13,708 Parkinson’s disease cases and 95,282 controls, all of European ancestry.

(NIH scientists find six new genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s, NIH)

The participants—from 18 European countries, Israel, and Canada—were mostly white individuals of European ancestry.

(Vitamin D Levels Predict Multiple Sclerosis Progression, NIH)

The youth of the race seemed burgeoning in me, over-civilized man that I was, and I lived for myself the old hunting days and forest nights of my remote and forgotten ancestry.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

However, in around one in 40 people in the UK sample, the mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA did not have matching ancestries.

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

The team next evaluated the association between APOC3 mutations and the risk of coronary heart disease in about 111,000 participants of European, African, and Hispanic ancestry.

(Rare mutations reduce heart disease risk, NIH)

The point under discussion was, how far any singular gift in an individual was due to his ancestry and how far to his own early training.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Previously, the only available diagnostic atlas featured photos of patients with northern European ancestry, which often does not represent the characteristics of these diseases in patients from other parts of the world.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

It had come down to him from a remote ancestry through a thousand thousand lives.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The first study analyzed Cardio-Metabochip microarray data from 74 studies that included over 342,000 people of European ancestry.

(The genetics of blood pressure, NIH)

Germline genetic testing method targeted to detect a specific mutation (such as a deleterious MSH2 mutation previously identified in a family), panel of mutations (such as the 3 BRCA mutations comprising the founder mutation panel for individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry) or type of mutation (such as a large deletions or insertions in the BRCA1 gene).