title: English Surnames: DNA, plural origins and emigration
creator: Plant, Dr John S
creator: Plant, Prof Richard E
subject: Population Biology
subject: Statistical Models
description: Since the turn of the millennium, DNA testing has helped with establishing the sizes of biological descent families within surnames. Some surnames have a dominant family: their remaining populations can be ascribed either to NPEs (non paternity events)or to smaller separate-origin families. Previously, there was no direct evidence as to how large each male-line family could grow within a surname,  considering that real-life plural-origin surnames could contain a few or many separate-origin families of various sizes. However, DNA testing is providing evidence to help indicate in particular the size of the largest male-line medieval descent family in a surname. We here perform statistical analyses of some relevant DNA results. This allows us to compare the DNA results with some predicted findings from our computer simulations.    
date: 2014-06-14
type: Other
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/9748/1/ESDE-Guild-June2014.pdf
identifier:   Plant, Dr John S and Plant, Prof Richard E  (2014) English Surnames: DNA, plural origins and emigration.      
relation: http://cogprints.org/9748/