Use of Surname Models in Human Population Biology: A Review of Recent Developments

Colantonio, Sonia Edith; Lasker, Gabriel W.; Kaplan, Bernice A.; Fuster, Vicente

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“…Lasker's R ib evaluates the degree of surname affinity, assuming that individuals with a common surname are more closely related than those without such similarities (Colantonio et al 2003). Lasker's R ib has previously been defined between pair populations (Sanna et al 2006).…”

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“…Non-random or assortative mating in human populations can result in surname stratification or subdivision while geographic isolation, conflicts, religion, and other cultural behaviors can contribute to their spatial distribution (Fix 1999;Koertvelyessy et al 1988;North and Crawford 1996). Isonymic models have been applied to wide ranging studies covering small groups, such as those found in households and villages, to large populations representing entire countries or even continents (Colantonio et al 2003;Darlu et al 2012). …”

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“…Deviation from panmixia can be indirectly assessed through the use of methods based on isonymy, or the study and analysis of recurring surnames within a given pedigree (Lasker 1969). Ideally, isonymic models assume that surnames have monophyletic origins and are transmitted from parents to biological children, simulating neutral alleles (Colantonio et al 2003;Lasker 1991). For this reason, surname distributions can be used for inferring genetic structure, admixture, genetic drift, and estimates of the intensity and directionality of human migrations (Darlu et al 2012;Koertvelyessy et al 1988;Lasker 1985;Rodríguez-Larralde et al 2011).…”

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Effect of Recent Historical Events on Migration and Isonymic Stratification among the Rama Amerindians from Nicaragua

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This study's objective was to discern the degree of relatedness between and within subdivisions of seven of these communities based on patterns of surname variation and genealogical data. We applied surname analyses (n= 592) to evaluate inter-and intrapopulation variation, consanguinity and substructure estimates and isolation by distance, and used a genealogically based marital (Conzemius 1927;Lehmann 1920;Loveland 1975;Roberts 1978Roberts [1827; Romero 1996). They subsisted on horticulture, hunting, and fishing, continually moving across their territory in small family units to exploit a variety of microenvironments based on seasonality. Group mobility allowed them to avoid the coast and migrate up river to more interior localities, effectively shielding them from flooding, hurricanes, and the outbreak of infectious diseases associated with climatologic events ( Despite changes to the traditional Rama subsistence strategy, group mobility, and land access, field researchers from this study (P.M. and N.B.) recently documented domestic networks connecting communities to their home base across many kilometers (Baldi 2013).Given that these communities are relatively recent phenomena which have not previously been investigated, this study seeks to ascertain the degree of relatedness between and within subdivisions of seven Rama communities based on geographical patterns of surname variation and genealogical data. In order to evaluate surname variation and population subdivisions, it is assumed that the distribution of marital surnames tends to deviate from panmixia due to geographic distance and sociocultural factors. In theory, non-random mating will also have an effect on gene frequencies (Barrai et al. 2002). Deviation from panmixia can be indirectly assessed through the use of methods based on isonymy, or the study and analysis of recurring surnames within a given pedigree (Lasker 1969). Ideally, isonymic models assume that surnames have monophyletic origins and are transmitted from parents to biological children, simulating neutral alleles (Colantonio et al. 2003;Lasker 1991). For this reason, surname distributions can be used for inferring genetic structure, admixture, genetic drift, and estimates of the intensity and directionality of human migrations (Darlu et al. 2012;Koertvelyessy et al. 1988;Lasker 1985;Rodríguez-Larralde et al. 2011). Non-random or assortative mating in human populations can result in surname stratification or subdivision while geographic isolation, conflicts, religion, and other cultural behaviors can contribute to their spatial distribution (Fix 1999;Koertvelyessy et al. 1988;North and Crawford 1996). Isonymic models have been applied to wide ranging studies covering small groups, such as those found in households and villages, to large populations representing entire countries or even continents (Colantonio et al. 2003;Darlu et al. 2012).The integration of genealogical information with genetic studies has recently been recognized as an important source of information on mutational, ...

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“…Lasker and Kaplan (1985) established that a population's genetic structure may be studied by means of 'wife vs. husband' surname matrices. Numerous papers have confirmed the usefulness of surnames applied to kinship and genetic similarity models (for a complete review see Colantonio et al 2003;and Rossi 2013).…”

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Influence of Changes in Political Barriers and of Geographic Distance on Kinship Inferred from Surnames and Migration Data in Olivenza, Spain, and Surrounding Portuguese Areas

Román-Busto¹

2015

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“…The outcome is a variety of spatial patterns that manifest processes of biological inheritance (Lasker 1985) and intergenerational inheritance of culture (CavalliSforza and Feldman 1981). The vast literature in this area is principally concerned with analyzing population structure in surname frequency distributions at national or sub-national levels (for a review see Colantonio et al 2003). Here we are solely concerned with how such population structure is manifest across space, rather than between religious, ethno-cultural or social groups per se.…”

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Delineating Europe's Cultural Regions: Population Structure and Surname Clustering

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Surnames (family names) show distinctive geographical patterning and in many disciplines remain an underutilized source of information about population origins, migration and identity. This paper investigates the geographical structure of surnames, using a unique individual level database assembled from registers and telephone directories from 16 European countries. We develop a novel combination of methods for exhaustively analyzing this multinational data set, based upon the Lasker Distance, consensus clustering and multidimensional scaling. Our analysis is both data rich and computationally intensive, entailing as it does the aggregation, clustering and mapping of 8 million surnames collected from 152 million individuals. The resulting regionalization has applications in developing our understanding of the social and cultural complexion of Europe, and offers potential insights into the long and short-term dynamics of migration and residential mobility. The research also contributes a range of methodological insights for future studies concerning spatial clustering of surnames and population data more widely. In short, this paper further demonstrates the value of surnames in multinational population studies and also the increasing sophistication of techniques available to analyze them. Abstract Surnames (family names) show distinctive geographical patterning and in many disciplines remain an underutilized source of information about population origins, migration and identity. This paper investigates the geographical structure of surnames, using a unique individual level database assembled from registers and telephone directories from 16 European countries. We develop a novel combination of methods for exhaustively analyzing this multinational data set, based upon the Lasker Distance, consensus clustering and multidimensional scaling. Our analysis is both data rich and computationally intensive, entailing as it does the aggregation, clustering and mapping of 8 million surnames collected from 152 million individuals. The resulting regionalization has applications in developing our understanding of the social and cultural complexion of Europe, and offers potential insights into the long and short-term dynamics of migration and residential mobility. The research also contributes a range of methodological insights for future studies concerning spatial clustering of surnames and population data more widely. In short, this paper further demonstrates the value of surnames in multinational population studies and also the increasing sophistication of techniques available to analyze them. Keywords SURNAMES, CONSENSUS CLUSTERING, LASKER DISTANCE, EUROPE GISFamily names, also known as surnames, are widely understood to provide good indicators of the geographic, ethnic, cultural and genetic structure of human populations. This is mainly because surnames were "fixed" in most populations several centuries ago, and their transmission over generations (mostly patrilinearly) typically conforms to socio-economic, religiou...

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Use of Surname Models in Human Population Biology: A Review of Recent Developments

Cited by 83 publications

References 98 publications

Effect of Recent Historical Events on Migration and Isonymic Stratification among the Rama Amerindians from Nicaragua

Effect of Recent Historical Events on Migration and Isonymic Stratification among the Rama Amerindians from Nicaragua

Influence of Changes in Political Barriers and of Geographic Distance on Kinship Inferred from Surnames and Migration Data in Olivenza, Spain, and Surrounding Portuguese Areas

Delineating Europe's Cultural Regions: Population Structure and Surname Clustering

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