In the name of the father: surnames and genetics

MA Jobling - TRENDS in Genetics, 2001 - cell.com
Hereditary surnames contain information about relatedness within populations. They have
been used as crude indicators of population structure and migration events, and to …

Sex differences in disease genetics: evidence, evolution, and detection

WP Gilks, JK Abbott, EH Morrow - Trends in Genetics, 2014 - cell.com
Understanding the genetic architecture of disease is an enormous challenge, and should be
guided by evolutionary principles. Recent studies in evolutionary genetics show that sexual …

[BOOK][B] Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples and disease

M Jobling, C Tyler-Smith - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

Y-chromosomal diversity in Europe is clinal and influenced primarily by geography, rather than by language

ZH Rosser, T Zerjal, ME Hurles, M Adojaan… - The American Journal of …, 2000 - cell.com
Clinal patterns of autosomal genetic diversity within Europe have been interpreted in
previous studies in terms of a Neolithic demic diffusion model for the spread of agriculture; in …

The phylogeography of Brazilian Y-chromosome lineages

DR Carvalho-Silva, FR Santos, J Rocha… - The American Journal of …, 2001 - cell.com
We examined DNA polymorphisms in the nonrecombining portion of the Y-chromosome to
investigate the contribution of distinct patrilineages to the present-day white Brazilian …

Strong Amerind/white sex bias and a possible Sephardic contribution among the founders of a population in northwest Colombia

LG Carvajal-Carmona, ID Soto, N Pineda… - The American Journal of …, 2000 - cell.com
Historical and genetic evidences suggest that the recently founded population of Antioquia
(Colombia) is potentially useful for the genetic map** of complex traits. This population …

Admixture dynamics in Hispanics: a shift in the nuclear genetic ancestry of a South American population isolate

G Bedoya, P Montoya, J García, I Soto… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Although it is well established that Hispanics generally have a mixed Native American,
African, and European ancestry, the dynamics of admixture at the foundation of Hispanic …

High-resolution analysis of human Y-chromosome variation shows a sharp discontinuity and limited gene flow between northwestern Africa and the Iberian Peninsula

E Bosch, F Calafell, D Comas, PJ Oefner… - The American Journal of …, 2001 - cell.com
In the present study we have analyzed 44 Y-chromosome biallelic polymorphisms in
population samples from northwestern (NW) Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, which allowed …

Estimating Scandinavian and Gaelic ancestry in the male settlers of Iceland

A Helgason, S Sigurðardóttir, J Nicholson… - The American Journal of …, 2000 - cell.com
We present findings based on a study of Y-chromosome diallelic and microsatellite variation
in 181 Icelanders, 233 Scandinavians, and 283 Gaels from Ireland and Scotland. All but one …

Genetic affinities of the Andaman Islanders, a vanishing human population

K Thangaraj, L Singh, AG Reddy, VR Rao, SC Sehgal… - Current Biology, 2003 - cell.com
Abstract Background: The Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal are inhabited by hunter-
gatherers of unknown origin, now on the verge of extinction. The Andamanese and other …