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In the name of the father: surnames and genetics

Mark A. Jobling
- 01 Jun 2001 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 6, pp 353-357
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Recent studies involving Y-chromosomal haplotyping and surname analysis are promising and indicate that genealogists of the future could be turning to records written in DNA, as well as in paper archives, to solve their problems.
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This article is published in Trends in Genetics.The article was published on 2001-06-01. It has received 191 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Patronymic surname.

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Surnames in Siberia: a study of the population of Yakutia through isonymy.

TL;DR: It is proposed that low-density demic diffusion of human populations results in high inbreeding and may have been a general phenomenon in the early phases of human radiations.
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Surnames and social status in Spain

TL;DR: In this article, the information contained in surnames on the socioeconomic status of people in Spain was studied and it was found that people bearing uncommon surnames tend to enjoy a higher socioeconomic status than people bearing more common surnames.
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Alternatives to the Wright-Fisher model: the robustness of mitochondrial Eve dating.

TL;DR: How many generations are needed for the limiting distributions of O'Connell to become adequate approximations of exact distributions to estimate the age of the so-called mitochondrial Eve, i.e., the root of the mitochondrial polymorphisms of the modern humans based on the DNA from humans and Neanderthal fossils is explored.
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Evaluating security and usability of profile based challenge questions authentication in online examinations

TL;DR: The results of the current research study suggest that memorability, clarity of questions, syntactic variation and question relevance can cause usability issues leading to authentication failure, and the PBAF is resistant to informed guessing in general.
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Análisis de isonimia entre poblaciones del noroeste de Colombia

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of two poblaciones, Aranzazu et al. and Marinilla, was performed, comparing them with Rionegro, a población with caracteristicas similares a Marinilla and its zona de influencia.
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Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

Eric S. Lander, +248 more
- 15 Feb 2001 - 
TL;DR: The results of an international collaboration to produce and make freely available a draft sequence of the human genome are reported and an initial analysis is presented, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the sequence.
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The sequence of the human genome.

J. Craig Venter, +272 more
- 16 Feb 2001 - 
TL;DR: Comparative genomic analysis indicates vertebrate expansions of genes associated with neuronal function, with tissue-specific developmental regulation, and with the hemostasis and immune systems are indicated.
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Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies.

TL;DR: A method for constructing networks from recombination-free population data that combines features of Kruskal's algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees by favoring short connections, and Farris's maximum-parsimony (MP) heuristic algorithm, which sequentially adds new vertices called "median vectors", except that the MJ method does not resolve ties.
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Tandem repeats finder: a program to analyze DNA sequences

TL;DR: A new algorithm for finding tandem repeats which works without the need to specify either the pattern or pattern size is presented and its ability to detect tandem repeats that have undergone extensive mutational change is demonstrated.
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Sequence the Human Genome

TL;DR: This book aims to provide a history of Chinese modern art from 17th Century to the present day through the lens of 20th Century critics, practitioners, journalists, and mediaeval and modern-day critics.
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