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Genetics in genealogical research--reconstruction of a family tree by means of Y-haplotyping.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur - 1 Dec 2004
Trumme Torsten, Herrmann Bernd, Hummel Susanne
Abstract excerpt
In societies, in which surnames are inherited patrilinearly, surnames and certain Y-chromosome STR allelic patterns, so-called Y-haplotypes, correlate. In order to reconstruct the relationship between three different family lines with the surname Zierdt, a total of 34 German and US-American males with this surname was selected. Among those test candidates several family branches could be identified on the basis...
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