"Me and a friend were recently discussing footballers whose surnames matched up with the main Scottish cities – Justin Edinburgh, Sean Dundee etc," muses Graeme Coleman.
However, Chen says Chinese surnames still contain some genetic information, and as a next step his colleagues plan to investigate whether the country's mosaic of surnames matches up with genetic diversity.
Old Fogey of New York reports "nearly 5,000 matches of varying degrees," then wonders how to make sense of all that and asks, "Are there any third party software programs that would help me find the common ancestors among all these matches, or calculate probable surname matches based on frequency of occurrence in my DNA results?
Take a look at the wide-ranging tracklist from Bob Moses's Essential Mix earlier this year and you'll see a track called "Fleur" by a little-known artist named Iain Howie, whose surname matches that of the fast-rising duo's own Tom Howie.
I'd heard of it from a journalist friend and I knew a little about her – The Independent's famous agony aunt with the stern spectacles and a surname to match – but I thought it best to do some preparatory research.
The library could be used forensically to provide a surname that matched a DNA sample, and for genealogy.
Or even better, the same team won both tournaments, hence winning the next edition before the previous edition (not counting Marty McFly, Doc Brown, etc)?" "After watching Japan's Keisuke Honda have a good game, I wondered if there were any players with a surname that matched their sponsor," wonders Ivan Anthony.
I could see his name clearly engraved, and the only surname that matched by friend.
Forensic investigations could theoretically use this Y-to-surname linkage to match an unknown DNA sample to a specific last name--especially for less common names, says Jobling.
When surnames of cases were found to match the ethnic surname list, these names were then manually verified by SA and Chinese researchers.
