The male-specific part of the human Y chromosome is widely used in forensic DNA analysis,
particularly in cases where standard autosomal DNA profiling is not informative. A Y …

We are entering an era of ubiquitous genetic information for research, clinical care and
personal curiosity. Sharing these data sets is vital for progress in biomedical research …

Sharing sequencing data sets without identifiers has become a common practice in
genomics. Here, we report that surnames can be recovered from personal genomes by …

Are green transformations too urgent, deep and pervasive to be reliably achieved by
democratic means? As suggested by the iconically influential environmentalist James …

The properties of the human Y chromosome–namely, male specificity, haploidy and escape
from crossing over—make it an unusual component of the genome, and have led to its …

Characterizing human mobility patterns is essential for understanding human behaviors and
the interactions with socioeconomic and natural environment, and plays a critical role in …

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 …

The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture
from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic …

In the last year direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic genealogy databases have been used to
identify suspects and missing persons in over fifty cold cases, many of which have been …

Relevant for various areas of human genetics, Y‐chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y‐
STR s) are commonly used for testing close paternal relationships among individuals and …