pedigree

• Children of closely consanguineous couples often have an increased incidence of detrimental health effects due to rare deleterious recessive alleles inherited from common ancestors, although this will depend on how inbred their pedigree is already. —  Health News from Medical News Today
• Steve Ott, C, Dallas (2-percent owned) - Ott is another former first rounder but his pedigree is a lot different than Malhotra's.
• Bush is the GOP great hope, but his pedigree is the key. —  Consortiumnews.com
• You've got a job lot of four dukes under the hammer; of four nationalities; all sound in the wind and limb and pedigree, all bankrupt and in debt up to the ears. —  The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories
• He further aided the theory by leaving the choice open to adopt either a uniform or multiform pedigree of the organisms and their kingdoms and classes, and by treating each class under both points of view; and finally, by fascinating experiments to bring before us in detail the hypothetical pedigrees of all classes of organisms from the protista kingdom up to man We will try to reproduce briefly the pedigree which is of most interest--the hypothetical pedigree of man_. —  The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

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