 | The following publications were written by members of the SMGF staff and show the broad range of research topics being investigated by the Foundation. General Interest The Power of DNA: Discovering Lost and Hidden RelationshipsInternational Genealogy and Local History: Papers presented by the Genealogy and Local History Section at IFLA General Conferences 2001-2005, edited by Ruth Hedegaard and Elizabeth Anne Melrose, Germany, 2008, pp. 231-246.
by Ugo A. Perego, Ann Turner, Jayne E. Ekins, and Scott R. Woodward
The Science of Molecular GenealogyNational Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 93, No. 4. (December 2005), pp. 245-259.
by Ugo A. Perego, Ann Turner, Jayne E. Ekins, and Scott R. Woodward
Y Research through DNAFamily History Magazine, May/June 2004, pp. 26-28.
by Ugo A. Perego, Natalie M. Myres, and Scott R. Woodward
Posters and Abstracts A detailed phylogeography of mtDNA haplogroup C1d: another piece in the Native American puzzle (available in print, but not on-line) American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2009.
by Ugo A. Perego et al.
Decrypting the mtDNA gene pool of modern Panamanians (available in print, but not on-line) American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2009.
by Alessandro Achilli et al.
Haplogroup H of mitochondrial DNA, a far echo of the West in the heart of Central Asia (available in print, but not on-line) American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2009.
by Scott R. Woodward et al.
Two major post-glacial genetic sources for the peopling of Sardinia (available in print, but not on-line) American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2009.
by Maria Pala et al.
Ancient Umbria: the mitochondrial DNA perspective (available in print, but not on-line) The Italian Life Sciences Federation XI Annual Congress, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2009.
by Hovirag Lancioni et al.
Toward a greater understanding of the Native American mtDNA phylogeny: a detailed analysis of the poorly characterized pan-American C1d clade (available in print, but not on-line) The Italian Life Sciences Federation XI Annual Congress, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2009.
by Ugo A. Perego et al.
L1c2b1a, the (African) haplogroup with the longest mitochondrial genome! (available in print, but not on-line) American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008.
by Kathleen H. Ritchie et al.
Mitochondrial DNA footprints in modern Mongolia (available in print, but not on-line) American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008.
by Scott R. Woodward et al.
The mitochondrial DNA landscape of modern Mexico (available in print, but not on-line) American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008.
by Alessandro Achilli, Ugo A. Perego et al.
Exclusion Criteria for Y Chromosome Datasets (available in print, but not on-line) The Fifth International Y-User Workshop, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2006
by Natalie Myres et al.
Peer-Reviewed Papers and Book Chapters Maximum-likelihood estimation of recent shared ancestry (ERSA)Genome Research, (February 2011), published ahead of print.
by Huff C, Witherspoon D, Simonson T, Xing J, Watkins S, Zhang Y, Tuohy T, Neklason D, Burt R, Guthery S, Woodward SR, Jorde LB
Ancestry of the Iban is predominantly southeast asian: genetic evidence from autosomal, mitochondrial, and y chromosomesPLoS One, Vol. 31. No. 6. (January 2011), e16338.
by Simonson TS, Xing J, Barrett R, Jerah E, Loa P, Zhang Y, Watkins WS, Witherspoon DJ, Huff CD, Woodward S, Mowry B, Jorde LB
A major Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b Holocene era founder effect in Central and Western EuropeEuropean Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 19. No. 1. (January 2011), pp. 95-101.
by Myres NM, Rootsi S, Lin AA, Järve M, King RJ, Kutuev I, Cabrera VM, Khusnutdinova EK, Pshenichnov A, Yunusbayev B, Balanovsky O, Balanovska E, Rudan P, Baldovic M, Herrera RJ, Chiaroni J, Di Cristofaro J, Villems R, Kivisild T, Underhill PA
Toward a more uniform sampling of human genetic diversity: a survey of worldwide populations by high-density genotypingGenomics, Vol. 96. No. 4 (October 2010), pp. 199-210.
by Xing J, Watkins WS, Shlien A, Walker E, Huff CD, Witherspoon DJ, Zhang Y, Simonson TS, Weiss RB, Schiffman JD, Malkin D, Woodward SR, Jorde LB
The initial peopling of the Americas: A growing number of founding mitochondrial genomes from BeringiaGenome Research, (June 2010), published ahead of print.
by Perego UA, Angerhofer N, Pala M, Olivieri A, Lancioni H, Kashani BH, Carossa V, Ekins JE, Gomez-Carballa A, Huber G, Zimmermann B, Corach D, Babudri N, Panara F, Myres NM, Parson W, Semino O, Salas A, Woodward SR, Achilli A, Torroni A
Titanic's unknown child: The critical role of the mitochondrial DNA coding region in a re-identification effortForensic Science International: Genetics, (April 2010), published ahead of print.
by Just RS, Loreille OM, Molto JE, Merriwether DA, Woodward SR, Matheson C, Creed J, McGrath SE, Sturk-Andreaggi K, Coble MD, Irwin JA, Ruffman A, Parr RL
Separating the post-Glacial coancestry of European and Asian Y chromosomes within haplogroup R1aEuropean Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 18. No. 4. (April 2010), pp. 479-484.
by Underhill PA, Myres NM, Rootsi S, Metspalu M, Zhivotovsky LA, King RJ, Lin AA, Chow CE, Semino O, Battaglia V, Kutuev I, Järve M, Chaubey G, Ayub Q, Mohyuddin A, Mehdi SQ, Sengupta S, Rogaev EI, Khusnutdinova EK, Pshenichnov A, Balanovsky O, Balanovska E, Jeran N, Augustin DH, Baldovic M, Herrera RJ, Thangaraj K, Singh V, Singh L, Majumder P, Rudan P, Primorac D, Villems R, Kivisild T
The emergence of Y-chromosome haplogroup J1e among Arabic-speaking populationsEuropean Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 18. No. 3. (March 2010), pp. 348-353.
by Chiaroni J, King RJ, Myres NM, Henn BM, Ducourneau A, Mitchell MJ, Boetsch G, Sheikha I, Lin AA, Nik-Ahd M, Ahmad J, Lattanzi F, Herrera RJ, Ibrahim ME, Brody A, Semino O, Kivisild T, Underhill PA
Mitochondrial haplogroup U5b3: a distant echo of the epipaleolithic in Italy and the legacy of the early SardiniansAmerican Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 84. No. 6. (June 2009), pp. 814-821.
by Pala M, Achilli A, Olivieri A, Kashani BH, Perego UA, Sanna D, Metspalu E, Tambets K, Tamm E, Accetturo M, Carossa V, Lancioni H, Panara F, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Al-Zahery N, Brisighelli F, Woodward SR, Francalacci P, Parson W, Salas A, Behar DM, Villems R, Semino O, Bandelt HJ, Torroni A
Y-chromosomal evidence of the cultural diffusion of agriculture in Southeast EuropeEuropean Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 17. No. 6. (June 2009), pp. 820-830.
by Battaglia V, Fornarino S, Al-Zahery N, Olivieri A, Pala M, Myres NM, King RJ, Rootsi S, Marjanovic D, Primorac D, Hadziselimovic R, Vidovic S, Drobnic K, Durmishi N, Torroni A, Santachiara-Benerecetti AS, Underhill PA, Semino O
Y-chromosome short tandem repeat intermediate variant alleles DYS392.2, DYS449.2, and DYS385.2 delineate new phylogenetic substructure in human Y-chromosome haplogroup treeThe Croatian Medical Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3. (June 2009), pp. 239-249.
by Myres NM, Ritchie KH, Lin AA, Hughes RE, Woodward SR, Underhill PA
Distinctive Paleo-Indian migration routes from Beringia marked by two rare mtDNA haplogroupsCurrent Biology, Vol. 19, No. 1. (January 13, 2009), pp. 1-8.
by Perego UA, Achilli A, Angerhofer N, Accetturo M, Pala M, Olivieri A, Kashani BH, Ritchie KH, Scozzari R, Kong QP, Myres NM, Salas A, Semino O, Bandelt HJ, Woodward SR, Torroni A
"New Phylogenetic Relationships for Y-chromosome Haplogroup I: Reappraising its Phylogeography and Prehistory," Rethinking the Human Evolution, Mellars P, Boyle K, Bar-Yosef O, Stringer C, Eds.McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, UK, 2007, pp. 33-42
by Underhill PA, Myres NM, Rootsi S, Chow CT, Lin AA, Otillar RP, King R, Zhivotovsky LA, Balanovsky O, Pshenichnov A, Ritchie KH, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Kivisild T, Villems R, Woodward SR
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