[Namesakes or relatives? Approaches to investigating the relationship between Y chromosomal haplogroups and surnames].

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Population genetics successfully applies surnames as quasi-genetic markers when estimating similarity between populations and calculating a measure of random inbreeding. These calculations are based on an isonomy coefficient which assumes that every surname is monophyletic: that it originated from single common ancestor and all namesakes are therefore relatives. On the other hand, there is a general opinion that...

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