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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 Argentina: a population study through isonymy.

TL;DR: The geographical distribution of alpha in 541 municipalities is compatible with the settlement in the 20th century of subsequent waves of immigrants moving from the North Atlantic coast toward the foot of the Andes and toward the south, indicating that migration dominates over drift.
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Vertical transmission of consumption behavior and the distribution of surnames

TL;DR: In this article, the authors detect the existence of links in consumption preference between generations based on the analysis of the correlation between the geographical distribution of surnames and consumption choices and show that thereis horizontal transmission of preferences regarding non-food items and possibly vertical transmission for food items.
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Triangulating differential nonresponse by race in a telephone survey

TL;DR: Methods described here may be useful for assessing differential nonresponse in samples with incomplete data on race when population race data are incomplete, which is often the case when studies are conducted among members of health plans.
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The development of an 18-locus Y-STR system for forensic casework.

TL;DR: The aim of the present work was to improve the discriminatory potential, and hence the probative value, of Y-STR-based testing by extending the set of Y chromosome STR loci available for forensic casework by maximizing the number of loci able to be co-amplified, and ensuring appropriate assay sensitivity.
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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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