Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Surnames and genetics = GENOMASTICS

I am getting used to call the research fusion between genetics and onomastics as GENOMASTICS. So, today I start to post on that transdisciplinary applied sub-onomastic field.


A general overview may be found in the article by Prof. Marc A. Jobling:



in the journal "Trends in Genetics" Vol. 17 No.6 June 2001

titled as

In the name of the father: surnames and genetics

Hereditary surnames contain information about relatedness within populations. They have been used as crude indicators of population structure and migration events, and to subdivide samples for epidemiological purposes. In societies that use patrilineal surnames, a surname should correlate with a type of Y chromosome, provided certain assumptions are met. Recent studies involving Y-chromosomal
haplotyping and surname analysis are promising and indicate that genealogists of the future could be turning to records written in DNA, as well as in paper archives, to solve their problems.

Keep reading here: http://www.le.ac.uk/ge/maj4/SurnamesForWeb.pdf


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