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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 valuation effect of directors’ sharing of surnames

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of directors' surname sharing on firm value and found that boards with greater surname homogeneity are associated with lower firm value, and that the negative effect of surname sharing is more pronounced when directors share rare surnames and when firms operate in regions with stronger clan systems.
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Inferring Chinese surnames with Y-STR profiles

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that increasing the sample size of surnames and the number of STR loci improves the accuracy of surname inference, and that the 15 non-duplicated Y-STR loci contain information from which surname can be reliably inferred for Chinese populations, showing a promising application in forensics.
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Regression to Mediocrity? Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1200-2009

TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary investigation of surname distributions as a measure of long run social mobility was carried out and it was shown that, all the way from the heart of the Middle Ages in 1200 to 2009, England is a society without persistent social classes, at least among the descendants of the medieval population.
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So Close, So Far Away: Analysis of Surnames in a Town of Twins (Cândido Godói, Brazil)

TL;DR: Surnames analyses provided a close approximation of historic and socioeconomic background at the moment of colony settlement in Cândido Godói, supporting the previous genetic study and supporting population isolation in this small town.
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Y-SNP miniplexes for East Asian Y-chromosomal haplogroup determination in degraded DNA.

TL;DR: Four multiplex PCR systems followed by single base extension reactions were developed to score 22 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and identify the most frequent East Asian Y chromosome haplogroups and will be useful tools for Y-chromosomal haplogroup determination in anthropological and forensic studies of East Asian populations.
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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.

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- 16 Feb 2001 - 
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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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