Researchers at the University of Leicester are trying to develop techniques that an one day enable police to work out criminals' surnames just by analysing their DNA.
Dr. Turi King, Wellcome Trust postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Genetics, has found that men with the same British surname are highly likely to be genetically linked. She insists that her findings have implications in the fields of forensics, genealogy, epidemiology, and the history of surnames.
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