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

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 351-360

  King, Turi E ^a   Jobling, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NAMES; PEDIGREE;

EID: 68349128219     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2009.06.003     Document Type: Review

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