H. Popular Books and Articles on DNA and History, including Famous Cases
1. Bradman, N. and Thomas, M. (1998) Why Y? The Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory. Science Spectra 14. Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas of the Centre for Genetic Anthropology at University College London discuss the role of fathers in human history.
2. Carmichael, Terrence and Alexander Kuklin (2000). How to DNA Test Our Family Relationships. DNA Press. Early (and still unique) book on adoptions, paternity and other relationship testing. Carmichael is a founder of GeneTree.
3. Cavalli-Sforza, L. et al (1994). The History and Geography of Human Genes. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
4. DNA-Interactive (web site). http://www.dnai.org/index.html Easy to explore modules on the many applications of DNA and some of its ethical issues.
5. Gamble, C. (1993). Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization. Stroud: Sutton.
6. Gill, P. et al. (1994). Identification of the remains of the Romanov family by DNA analysis. Nature Genet. 6:130-135.
7. Jehaes, E. et al. (1998). Mitochondrial DNA analysis on remains of a putative son of Louis XVI, King of France and Marie-Antoinette. Eur J Hum Genet. 6/4:383-95.
8. Jobling, M.A. and C. Tyler-Smith (1995). Fathers and Sons: The Y Chromosome and Human Evolution. Tr Genet 11:449-56.
9. Jobling, Mark A. (June 2001). “In the Name of the Father: Surnames and Genetics.” Trends in Genetics 17/6:353-357.
10. Jobling, M. A. & Tyler-Smith, C. (2003). “The human Y chromosome: an evolutionary marker comes of age.” Nature Rev. Genet. 4:598-612.
11. King, T.E. et al. (2007). Thomas Jefferson's Y Chromosome Belongs to a Rare European Lineage. Am J Phys Anthrop 132/4:584-89. The third president of the United States has haplogroup K2 and may be descended from a Spanish Jew.
12. Leary, H.L.F (2001) Sally Hemings’s children: a genealogical analysis of the evidence. National Genealogical Society Quarterly 89/3.
13. Malhi, R.S. (2001). Investigating Prehistoric Population Movements in North America with Ancient and Modern mtDNA. Davis: University of California, Davis.
14. Olson, Steve (2002). Mapping Human History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
15. O’Neill, Sean (March 8, 1997) Cheddar man is my long-lost relative. News story available at http://www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/a1/stoppress/stop12.htm. Britain’s 9,000 year old skeleton proved to be of U mitochondrial lineage.
16. Oppenheimer, Stephen (1999). Eden in the East: Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia. London: Phoenix.
17. -------------- (2006). The Origins of the British. A Genetic Detective Story. New York: Carroll & Graf.
18. --------------- (2004). Out of Eden. New York: Carroll & Graf.
19. ----------- (2003). The Real Eve. Modern Man’s Journey Out of Africa. New York: Carroll & Graff.
20. Pomery, Chris (2004) DNA and Family History: How Genetic Testing Can Advance Your Genealogical Research. London: National Archives. http://www.dnaandfamilyhistory.com/about-dna-and-family-history.shtml
21. Richards, M. and Macaulay, V. (2000) The mitochondrial gene tree comes of age. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 68: 1315-20.
22. Roderick, T. H. (n.d.) A discussion of the Y-Chromosome and its role in DNA as tool for genealogists. http://genealogy.about.com/library/authors/ucroderick1e.htm. Thomas H.
23. Roderick, Ph.D., of the Center for Human Genetics contributes several introductory lectures on About.com’s Genetics and Genealogy pages.
24. Rollo, R. et al. (2006). Fine Characterization of the Iceman’s mtDNA Haplogroup. Am J Phys Anthropol. Prepub. The mummy found in the Alps belonged to K1 subcluster but does not fit into any of three present-day branches (a, b, and c).
25. Shriver, M. D. & Kittles, R. A. Genetic ancestry and the search for personalized genetic histories. Nature Rev. Genet. 5, 611-618 (2004).
26. Stone, A. C. et al. (2001). Mitochondrial DNA analysis of the presumptive remains of Jesse James. J Forensic Sci. 46/1:173-6.
27. Sykes, Brian (2001) The Seven Daughters of Eve. The Science that Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry. New York, Norton. Names the founders of Europe’s major female haplogroups Helena, Jasmine, Katrine, Tara, Velda, Xenia, and Ursula.
28. Wells, Spencer (2002). The Journey of Man, a Genetic Odyssey. Princeton UP.
29. Watson, James D., with Andrew Berry (2004). DNA. The Secret of Life (New York: Knopf). The inside story of the genetic revolution as told by the winner of the Nobel Prize and author of The Double Helix.