Monthly Archives: January 2014


Critique age and origin of the ancestor of all human Y-chromosomes (“Y-Adam”)

The topic when and where the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all human Y-chromosomes (somehow misleading but popularly called “Y-Adam”), inherited paternally from father to sons, did live, is one of the hottest topics in the population genetics field and affects also research and tools used by genetic genealogists focusing on the paternal lineage […]

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35 ‘Austrian’ GenBank mtDNA sequences

Ian Logan has posted a very interesting information for Alpine DNA research in the genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com list: A set of 35 ‘Austrian’ mtDNA sequecnes has appeared on GenBank. They are to accompany a paper (unpublished as yet) by: Kloss-Brandstaetter,A., Schaefer,G., Erhart,G., Stoeckl,A., Weissensteiner,H., Forer,L., Schoenherr,S., Pacher,D., Seifarth,C., Sottsas,I., Klocker,H., Pallua,J.D., Kronenberg,F. and Kloss,F.R. “Mutations in the […]