Niall
Oxford Ancestors now offers a High Kings of Ireland test, which purports to show descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages, legendary progenitor of the Uí Néill clan and the High Kings of Ireland. One of the surnames listed is my own, Hynes. (According to legend, the first Hynes, or O'Heyne, was actually descended not from Niall, but from his brother, Fiachra; however, if true, the Y chromosomes should be the same or very similar. The O'Heynes were chiefs of the Uí Fiachrach Aidhne.) The source is given as the American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2006, "A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland" (abstract). (full text PDF) See also these online articles:
High King Niall: the most fertile man in Ireland (Times Online)
Scientists discover most fertile Irish male (The Boston Globe/Reuters)
Medieval Irish warlord boasts three million descendants (New Scientist)
Matching Niall Nóigiallach - Niall of the Nine Hostages (Family Tree DNA)
Irish Research into yDNA at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Ireland Heritage DNA Project)
If Irish Claim Nobility, Science May Approve
(New York Times)
Articles
Collections of scientific arcticles
Human Population Genetics Laboratory - Publications (Stanford
University)
The American Journal of Human Genetics Electronic Edition (The American Society of
Human Genetics)
The American Society of Human Genetics (Abstracts)
University of Leicester Dept. of Genetics (Dr Mark A. Jobling)
PubMed (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Why Y? The Y Chromosome in the Study of
Human Evolution, Migration and Prehistory (Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas)
Genealogy
Y-chromosomes used to trace family trees and study surnames
Y-Clan™ Services (Oxford Ancestors)
The Y Chromosome and Personal Genetic Archaeology (Kuro5hin)
GENETICS AND GENEALOGY: Y Polymorphism and mtDNA Analyses (Kevin F. Duerinck, Esq.)
Duerinck Surname DNA Project with links to many similar projects
Family Tree DNA - we do genetic tests for your genealogy questions!
History since the last Ice Age: National and International DNA Projects (Rootsweb)
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (Formerly at Brigham Young University)
Y-chromosome Adam
Comparisons between men around the world give a family tree for mankind suggesting that the most recent common male
ancestor lived about 59,000 years ago in Africa, some 84,000 years after "Mitochondrial Eve".
Adam and Eve probably never met (Nature Genetics)
Genetic 'Adam never met Eve' (BBC News)
Boost for 'Out of Africa' theory (BBC News)
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson's relationship to slave descendents
Y Chromosome DNA Data on Jefferson and Hemmings (Robert J. Huskey)
Did Thomas Jefferson Father Slave Children? (Nova on PBS)
Mapping Jefferson's Y Chromosome (Frontline on PBS)
Jefferson's DNA and Sally Hemings (Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.)
Thomas Jefferson - Sally Hemings DNA Study (family historian)
Jefferson-Hemings DNA Testing: An On-Line Resource (Monticello)
Jefferson's secret life (US News)
A Jefferson descendant emerges in Issaquah (Seattle Times)
Jews
Jewish relationship to Arabs, a common ancestor for Cohen priests, relationship to African tribe, etc.
Russian Jewish Genetics - A collection of abstracts and reviews of books, articles, and genetic studies (Khazaria.com)
Jewish Population Genetics (NY Times)
Jews and Arabs are 'genetic brothers' (BBC News)
Origins and diversity of Jewish Y-chromosome haplotypes (ASHG)
Tracing the Cohanim (Nova on PBS)
The Lemba, The Black Jews of Southern Africa (Nova on PBS)
The Genetics of Jewish Populations (Ethan T. Vishniac)
Americans
Native American relationships to each other and to Central Siberians
The Central Siberian Origin
for Native American Y Chromosomes (American Journal of Human Genetics)
Male Sex Chromosome May Reveal Migration (Science
Magazine)
Y Chromosome Haplotypes Reveal Distinct Migration Patterns in
Siberia and the Americas (ASHG*)
A Native American "Adam" (Dorothy C. Wertz, PhD)
Asians
DNA & the Peopling of Siberia (Smithsonian)
Y Chromosome Study Suggests Asians, Too, Came from Africa (Scientific American)
Study Supports Out-of-Africa Origin for East Asians (PennState)
History of Ancient Indian Conquest Told in Modern Genes, Experts
Say (Newsday)
Indian Caste Groups Have Differing Genetic Relationships to
Europeans and Asians (University of Utah)
Europeans
95% of Europeans are descended from just 10 stone-age men
DNA
study traces ancient ancestry of Europeans (AP/SF Chronicle)
Europe's 10 founding 'fathers' (BBC
News)
Europe's seven female founders (BBC
News)
A synopsis of the entire European Y-chromosome biallelic
haplotype spectrum (ASHG*)
Irish
Scientists
use Irish genes to uncover Europe's past (AP/SF Chronicle)
Y-chromosome
variation and Irish origins (Nature Magazine, 3/23/00)
Geneticists Show That Irish Are A Race Apart (Reuters)
Science shows Y the Irish are from Spain (New York Times)
More About Genes - The Irish Really are a race apart (Dr. Emmeline Hill)
Why people in Iceland look just like us (Irish Times)
DNA Study of Irish Clans (Jim Maguire)
One More Difference Among Us (Science News)
Vikings
Scientists Use Genetics to Trace Viking Heritage (ABC
News)
Creationists
Typical distortions by a "scientific creationist"
Y-chromosome Reveals The Genesis Flood Account. (Hugh Ross, Ph.D.)
Y-Chromosome Adam? (Answers in Genesis)
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