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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
TLDR
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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Estimating Sampling Selection Bias in Human Genetics: A Phenomenological Approach

TL;DR: The results indicate that the sampling of individuals bearing historically documented surnames (founders' method) should be applied, especially when studying the male-specific genome, to prevent an over-stratification of ancient and recent genetic components that heavily biases inferences and statistics.
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What’s in a name? Using surnames as data for party research:

TL;DR: This paper used surnames as markers to confirm the obvious explanation for the Northern Ireland party system and then proposed a novel explanation of the Irish party system, and suggested that surnames could be an objective way of studying migration patterns and ethnic heritage.
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Small Ancestry Informative Marker panels for complete classification between the original four HapMap populations

TL;DR: A protocol for the identification of Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) from genome-wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data is proposed and suggests that the protocol could be useful in a scenario involving a larger number of populations.

Evolutionary Studies of the Mammalian Y Chromosome

TL;DR: Sex chromosomes are useful in elucidating the evolutionary factors affecting diversity and divergence and may complement studies using mitochondrial DNA for inferr ...
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Statistical issues in modelling the ancestry from Y-chromosome and surname data

Maarya Sharif
TL;DR: A model of TMRCA estimation based on the difference in repeat numbers in pairs of male haplotypes using a Bayesian framework and Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo techniques, which incorporates the process of STR discovery and the calibration of mutation rates, which can differ across STRs.
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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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Sequence the Human Genome

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