Publications

The following publications show the broad range of research topics being investigated by SMGF.

General Interest

“Anchoring” Family History through DNA
Family Chronicle, November/December 2009, pp. 42-44.
by Ugo A. Perego, Kaisa Bailey, and Pekka Hellemaa
DNA and Genealogy: A Case Study
Family Chronicle, May/June 2009, pp. 40-42.
by J. Michael Hunter and Ugo A. Perego
Resolving the Paternities of Oliver N. Buell and Mosiah L. Hancock through DNA
John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, 2008, pp.128-136.
by Ugo A. Perego, Jayne E. Ekins, and Scott R. Woodward
The Power of DNA: Discovering Lost and Hidden Relationships
International 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
Mountain Meadows Survivor? A Mitochondrial DNA Examination
Journal of Mormon History, Fall 2006, pp. 45-53.
by Ugo A. Perego and Scott R. Woodward
Two Families: One Y Chromosome
Family Chronicle, July/August 2006, pp. 43-45.
by Bonnie L. Schermer and Ugo A. Perego
The Science of Molecular Genealogy
National 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
Reconstructing the Y-Chromosome of Joseph Smith: Genealogical Applications
Journal of Mormon History, Fall 2005, pp. 42-60.
by Ugo A. Perego, Natalie M. Myres, and Scott R. Woodward
Y Research through DNA
Family History Magazine, May/June 2004, pp. 26-28.
by Ugo A. Perego, Natalie M. Myres, and Scott R. Woodward
Molecular Genealogy – A Genetic Approach
Ancestor, Vol. 26, March 2003, pp. 10-12.
by Ugo A. Perego, Natalie M. Myres, Jayne E. Ekins, and Scott R. Woodward
Genetics, Genealogy and the Molecular Genealogy Research Project
Genealogical Journal, Vol. 30, 2002, pp. 125-128.
by Natalie M. Myres, Ugo A. Perego, Scott R. Woodward
Molecular Genealogy at the Brigham Young University
Everton’s Genealogy Helper, September/October 2000, pp. 22-25.
by Ugo A. Perego

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.
Allocation of YSTR microvariant alleles to Y-chromosome binary haplogroups
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008.
by Natalie M. Myres 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.
The origins of Native Americans from a mitochondrial DNA viewpoint
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008.
by Ugo A. Perego et al.
A Comparison of Publicly Accessible Y Chromosome Databases for Ancestral and Population Studies
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2006
by Ugo Perego et al.
Formalization of matching strategies for duplicated Y chromosome STR loci
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2006
by Luke Hutchison et al.
Gene Conversions in Palindromic Regions of the Y chromosome
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2006
by Ann Turner 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.
An Updated World-Wide Characterization of the Cohen Modal Haplotype
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005
by Jayne Ekins et al.
Characterization of a novel private allele for East Asia and Oceania
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005
by Jenny Peterson et al.
Characterization of family-specific LD patterns in Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation dataset
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005
by Katie Pennington et al.
Formalization of matching strategies for duplicated loci
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005
by Luke Hutchison et al.
High resolution Y-chromosome analysis of surname association with paternal relatedness
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005
by Scott Woodward et al.
Mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal Analysis of an Indigenous Mexican Population, the Filomeno Mata, to Investigate Admixture with the Spanish
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005
by Katie Ritchie et al.
mtDNA Diversity of the Peruvian Andean Altiplano
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005
by Natalie Myres et al.
Database characterization of Y-chromosomal 39-locus haplotypes
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 2004.
by Natalie M. Myres et al.
Direct determination of mutation characteristics of Y chromosome STR loci
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 2004.
by Luke A. D. Hutchison et al.
Empirical Evaluation of Inferred Population Structure from Y-chromosomal Haplotypes
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 2004.
by Jayne E. Ekins et al.
Methods for improved reconstruction of haplotypes of highly polymorphic loci
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 2004.
by Jacob B. Ekins et al.
Non-Paternity and Locus Specific Mutation Rates of 36 Y Chromosome STRs
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 2004.
by Katie Hadley et al.
Large Scale DNA Variation as an Aid to Reconstruction of Extended Human Pedigrees
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, October 2003.
by Scott R. Woodward 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 chromosomes
PLoS 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 Europe
European 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 genotyping
Genomics, 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 Beringia
Genome 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
Mitochondrial DNA: A Female Perspective in Recent Human Origin and Evolution
Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, Spinozzi P, Zironi A, Eds. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2010), pp. 41-58.
by Achilli A, Perego UA
Titanic’s unknown child: The critical role of the mitochondrial DNA coding region in a re-identification effort
Forensic 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 R1a
European 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
Limited distribution of a cardiomyopathy-associated variant in India
Annals of Human Genetics, Vol. 74 No. 2 (March 2010), pp. 184-188.
by Simonson TS, Zhang Y, Huff CD, Xing J, Watkins WS, Witherspoon DJ, Woodward SR, Jorde LB
The emergence of Y-chromosome haplogroup J1e among Arabic-speaking populations
European 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 Sardinians
American 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 Europe
European 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 tree
The 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 haplogroups
Current 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
The Phylogeny of the Four Pan-American MtDNA Haplogroups: Implications for Evolutionary and Disease Studies 
PLoS ONE 3:3 (March 2008): e1764. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001764, 
by Achilli A, Perego UA, Bravi CM, Coble MD, Kong K-P, Woodward SR, Salas A, Torroni A, Bandelt H-J 
“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
Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat DYS458.2 Non-consensus Alleles
The Croatian Medical Journal, Vol. 48, No. 4. (August 2007), pp. 450-459.
by Myres N, Underhill P, Woodward SR
Inference of ancestry: Constructing hierarchical reference populations and assigning unknown individuals
Human Genomics, Vol. 2, No. 4. (January 2006), pp. 212-235.
by Ekins JE, Ekins JB, Layton L, Hutchison LA, Myres NM, Woodward SR
Growing the Family Tree: The Power of DNA in Reconstructing Family Relationships
Proceedings of the First Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (BIOT-04), September 2004, pp. 42-49.
by Hutchison LA, Myres NM, Woodward SR

Publications Supported By SMGF

Y chromosome diversity, human expansion, drift, and cultural evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Vol. 106. No. 48. (December 2009), pp. 20174-20179.
by Chiaroni J, Underhill PA, Cavalli-Sforza LL