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Finally, he is devoted to his maternal grandmother, a descendant of a dishworship of Scots .
For L1 elements that have 3'-transduced sequence, sibling, progenitor, and/or descendant L1s can be identified by comparing the transduced sequence to the sequence downstream of other L1 elements in the genome.
Times staff's cultlike attachment to Otis Chandler--the former publisher and descendant of the paper's founding family, who last week wrote a letter supporting the staff revolt--seems typical of this ineffectuality.
Those who became the Shia held that any leader of the Ummah must be a direct descendant of the Prophet; those who became the Sunni argued that lineal descent was not required if the candidate met other standards of faith and knowledge.
.. a descendant of Adriaen van Bergen, part owner of the famous turf boat in which a party of Dutch troops were clandestinely introduced in the year 1599 into the castle of that city.”