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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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Ethnicity and population structure in personal naming networks.

TL;DR: This work shows how ‘naming networks’, constructed from forename-surname pairs of a large sample of the contemporary human population in 17 countries, provide a valuable representation of cultural, ethnic and linguistic population structure around the world.
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Excavating Past Population Structures by Surname-Based Sampling: The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in Northwest England

TL;DR: The method of historical surname-based ascertainment promises to allow investigation of the influence of migration and drift over the last few centuries in changing the population structure of Britain and will have general utility in other regions where surnames are patrilineal and suitable historical records survive.
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Recent Developments in Y-Short Tandem Repeat and Y-Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis.

TL;DR: Techniques for typing these Y-SNPs are reviewed including primer extension and allele-specific hybridization methods, and available reference materials for standardization of allele calls, Y-STR allele nomenclature issues, and published validation and interlaboratory studies are reviewed.
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The Human Y Chromosome Haplogroup Tree: Nomenclature and Phylogeography of Its Major Divisions

TL;DR: The recent construction of a highly resolved tree of the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY), and the development of a cladistic nomenclatural system to name the resulting haplogroups support the hypothesis of an African origin of human NRY diversity.
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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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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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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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