News tagged with surnames
DNA could reveal your surname
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Oct 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the world-leading Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester – where the revolutionary technique of genetic fingerprinting was invented by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys- are developing ...
Y chromosome and surname study challenges infidelity 'myth'
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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Our surnames and genetic information are often strongly connected, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust. The research, published this week in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, may help genealogists create ...
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Fear of discrimination saw Paddys and Biddys decline
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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The Durham and Northumbria Universities study, both based in the UK, suggests that a fear of prejudice made the Irish immigrants steer clear of giving their children Irish Catholic names, a trend also seen in today's society ...
Illustrious Jewish roots of Tory leader revealed
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cameron’s Jewish history goes back hundreds - if not thousands - of years, according to a University of Manchester historian. Dr Yaakov Wise, who specialises in Jewish history, says the Tory leade ...
Got an unusual name? Facebook may think it's fake
May 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake.
Babies born to native high-altitude mothers have decreased risk of low birth weight
May 18, 2009 |
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Pregnant women who are indigenous to the Andes Mountains deliver more blood and oxygen to their fetuses at high altitude than do women of European descent. The study helps explain why babies of Andean descent ...
Here's a guide to social networking for clueless adults
May 13, 2009 |
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Welcome to Facebook, children of the 20th century. Since the social network, initially developed for students, relaxed its rules in 2006 to let in pretty much anyone older than 13, millions of users who predate the Internet ...
Unravelling the Northwest's Viking past
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Feb 08, 2008 |
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The blood of the Vikings is still coursing through the veins of men living in the North West of England — according to a new study which has been just published.
Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia, or what is now Turkey
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Jun 17, 2007 |
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The long-running controversy about the origins of the Etruscan people appears to be very close to being settled once and for all, a geneticist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. ...
Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain
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Jan 24, 2007 |
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New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst "indigenous" British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their black ancestry.
Study: DNA may predict criminals' surnames
Feb 22, 2006 |
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British researchers say forensic scientists might soon be using DNA from crime scenes to predict the surname of the criminal responsible for the crime.
Women increasingly pick husbands’ surnames over their own
Nov 16, 2005 |
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What’s in a name – or two names? Quite a bit, says a University of Florida professor, whose research finds that a growing number of brides are returning to tradition when taking a man’s hand in marriage, assuming his name ...
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