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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A randomly ascertained sample of males with the surname" Sykes" was typed with four Y-
chromosome microsatellites. Almost half the sample shared the same Y-chromosome …

The Y chromosome is currently by far the most popular marker in genetic genealogy that
combines genetic data and family history. This popularity is based on its haploid character …

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

It should be possible to use Y chromosome DNA polymorphisms to trace paternal lineages
for evolutionary and other studies, but progress in these areas has been slow because it has …

Three hypervariable Y chromosome DNA loci have been analyzed in human males. The
haplotypes defined allow paternal lineages to be identified. Most of these lineages fall into …