0 typical of or like a father, especially a kind father: --
1 behaving or feeling as a father does toward his child: --
paternal grandparents
The fetal inheritance of autosomal dominant paternal mutations could also be assessed.
If the two pronuclei, taken from fertilised eggs and transferred into an enucleated egg, are only maternal or only paternal, normal development does not occur.
The maternal uncle might come and take the nephew out of his paternal household.
That is, maternal information may be designed to inform maternally related kin or suppress misleading information provided by paternal genes.
In line with this also is that paternal disorders were weakly correlated with maternal disorders.
In cluster 3, the affected twin reported less paternal warmth and much higher levels of maternal authoritarianism than her unaffected twin.
There were twice as many significant relationships which came from the maternal side as from the paternal side of the family.
Major depression in offspring showed not only the well-known association with maternal depression, but also with paternal depression, which has received little previous study.
