Regional surnames and genetic structure in Great Britain.

ABSTRACT: Following the increasing availability of DNA-sequenced data, the genetic structure of populations can now be inferred and studied in unprecedented detail. Across social science, this innovation is shaping new bio-social research agendas, attracting substantial investment in the collection of genetic, biological and social data for large population samples. Yet genetic samples are special because the precise populations that they represent are uncertain and ill-defined. Unlike most social surveys, a genetic sample's representativeness of the population cannot be established by conventional procedures of statistical inference, and the implications for population-wide generalisations about bio-social phenomena are little understood. In this paper, we seek to address these problems by linking

SUBMITTER: Kandt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5032893 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature