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Publications (1)

Surnames and Genetic Structure
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June 1985

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Gabriel Ward Lasker

Surnames are inherited in much the same way as are biological traits. Since surnames were generally adopted - in Europe during Medieval times - their distribution has become very uneven: analysis of the present geographic patterns provides an insight into the kind of redistribution of genes that has resulted from all the migrations of the intervening years. Using non-technical language and a minimum of mathematics, this book presents a lucid description and evaluation of these studies of the genetic structure of human populations. A special feature is the appendix which presents computer-generated maps and distribution diagrams of 100 common surnames in England and Wales.

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... Human genetics builds upon the concept of the isonym. Long an aspect of genetic research, analyzing the spatial relations found among the same surnames allows researchers to draw conclusions regarding the territorial particularities of the Y chromosome (Lasker, 1980;1985;Jobling, 2001;King & Jobling, 2009;Darlu et al., 2012;Ochiai et al., 2021, etc.). In surname studies, isonymic distance measures the rate of dissimilarity among surnames originating from two areas. ...

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Hungarian Family Name Typology and the Question of Onomastic Dialects
Surnames and Genetic Structure
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  • June 1985

Gabriel Ward Lasker