| developing techniques which may one day allow police to work out someone’s surname from the DNA alone |
| Doctoral research by Turi King has shown that men with the same British surname are highly likely to be genetically linked. |
| the Y chromosome, is the one part of our genetic material that confers maleness and is passed, like surnames, from father to son. Therefore, a link could exist between a man’s surname and the type of Y chromosome he carries. A simple link between name and Y chromosome could in principle connect all men sharing a surname into one large family tree. |
| each name may have had several founders. Events such as adoptions, name-changes and non-paternities would confuse any simple genetic link. |
| between two men who share the same surname there is a 24% chance of sharing a common ancestor through that name but that this increases to nearly 50% if the surname they have is rare |
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