uniparental
adjective
uni·pa·ren·tal
ˌyü-ni-pə-ˈren-tᵊl 
: having, involving, or derived from a single parent
specifically
: involving or being inheritance in which all or part of an offspring's genotype (such as both members of a pair of homologous chromosomes) is derived from a single parent
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Finally, the authors note that uniparental lineages (mtDNA and Y) seem to imply that the last common ancestors of the ANI with other sampled West Eurasian groups dates to ~10,000 years before the present.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
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uniparental
adjective
uni·pa·ren·tal
ˌyü-ni-pə-ˈrent-ᵊl
: having, involving, or derived from a single parent
specifically
: involving or being inheritance in which an offspring's complete genotype or all copies of one or more genes, chromosome parts, or whole chromosomes are derived from a single parent
uniparental disomy
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