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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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What's in a name? The frequency and geographic distributions of UK surnames

TL;DR: McElduff, Mateos, Angie Wade and Mario Cortina Borja investigate whether a person's surname can reveal the social history of where they live as mentioned in this paper. But it is difficult to determine whether the surname is a Smith, a Featherstonehaugh-Cholomondely-Warnock or a Begum.
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The Garífuna (Black Carib) people of the Atlantic coasts of Honduras: Population dynamics, structure, and phylogenetic relations inferred from genetic data, migration matrices, and isonymy.

TL;DR: A dendrogram constructed with allele frequencies of the Garifuna and other populations from the Americas, Africa, and Europe revealed the close relationships of this ethnic group with Afro‐Caribbean and African Populations.
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Surnames in Chile: a study of the population of Chile through isonymy.

TL;DR: The Chilean population is investigated with the aim of detecting its structure through the study of isonymy (Crow and Mange,1965) in the three administrative levels of the nation, namely 15 regions, 54 provinces, and 346 communes.
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Intergenerational linkages in consumption patterns and the geographical distribution of surnames

TL;DR: In this paper, an indirect methodology was proposed to detect the existence of links in consumption patterns between generations, based on the analysis of the correlation between the geographical distributions of surnames and consumption choices, and showed that there is no significant intergenerational link on consumption patterns for non-food goods.
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With víkingr into the Identity Trap: When Historiographical Actors Get a Life of Their Own

Kerstin P. Hofmann
- 01 Dec 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the etymology of the term "Viking" and the reception of the Vikings in modern times are discussed, as well as the role of romanticization and mythologization as constituents of the popular image of "the Vikings".
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- 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.

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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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