Genome sequencing technology has advanced at a rapid pace and it is now possible to
generate highly-detailed genotypes inexpensively. The collection and analysis of such data …

Until recently, the Y chromosome seemed to fulfil the role of juvenile delinquent among
human chromosomes—rich in junk, poor in useful attributes, reluctant to socialize with its …

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 …

Sherlock Holmes said “it has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the most important”, but never imagined that such a little thing, the DNA molecule, could …

Improvements in genotyping technologies have led to the increased use of genetic
polymorphism for inference about population phenomena, such as migration and selection …

The Y chromosome contains the largest nonrecombining block in the human genome. By
virtue of its many polymorphisms, it is now the most informative haplotyping system, with …

During a visit to Beruas, a small village-town in West Malaysia in 2005, I was alarmed by the
fact that more and more grandmothers were speaking to their grandchildren in bad …

This is a completely revised edition of a comprehensive and popular introduction to the fast
moving area of Forensic Genetics. The text begins with key concepts needed to fully …

The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a
multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from …

We have screened the nearly complete DNA sequence of the human Y chromosome for
microsatellites (short tandem repeats) that meet the criteria of having a repeat-unit size of⩾ 3 …