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What's in a name? Y chromosomes, surnames and the genetic genealogy revolution.

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Aug 2009

King Turi E, Jobling Mark A

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Heritable surnames are highly diverse cultural markers of coancestry in human populations. A patrilineal surname is inherited in the same way as the non-recombining region of the Y chromosome and there should, therefore, be a correlation between the two. Studies of Y haplotypes within surnames, mostly of the British Isles, reveal high levels of coancestry among surname cohorts and the influence of confounding...

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PMID: 19665817
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2009.06.003

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