Most heritable surnames, like Y chromosomes, are passed from father to son. These unique
cultural markers of coancestry might therefore have a genetic correlate in shared Y …

Ireland has one of the oldest systems of patrilineal hereditary surnames in the world. Using
the paternal co-inheritance of Y-chromosome DNA and Irish surnames, we examined the …

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 …

Surnames are cultural markers of shared ancestry within human populations. The Y
chromosome, like many surnames, is paternally inherited, so men sharing surnames might …

Seventeen-marker simple tandem repeat genetic analysis of Irish Y chromosomes reveals a
previously unnoted modal haplotype that peaks in frequency in the northwestern part of the …

In most societies, surnames are passed down from fathers to sons, just like the Y
chromosome. It follows that, theoretically, men sharing the same surnames would also be …

Abstract The Vikings (or Norse) played a prominent role in Irish history but, despite this, their
genetic legacy in Ireland, which may provide insights into the nature and scale of their …

Hereditary surnames contain information about relatedness within populations. They have
been used as crude indicators of population structure and migration events, and to …

The biological behavior of the Y chromosome, which is paternally inherited, implies that
males sharing the same surname may also share a similar Y chromosome. However, socio …

The presence of Africans in Britain has been recorded since Roman times, but has left no
apparent genetic trace among modern inhabitants. Y chromosomes belonging to the …