Genes mirror geography within Europe
John Novembre, University of California Los Angeles.
Papers for Seminar: Novembre, et al., "Genes mirror geography within Europe," Nature 456, 98-101 (2008).
Novembre and Stephens, "Interpreting principal component analyses of spatial population genetic variation," Nature Genetics 40, 646 - 649 (2008).
Download a podcast of John Novembre's talk here.

November 19

Using genealogies to study recent human history
Agnar Helgason, deCODE Genetics, Iceland.
PAPERS FOR SEMINAR: Helgason, et al., "An Association Between the Kinship and Fertility of Human Couples," Science 319, 813 (2008).
Helgason, et al., "A Populationwide Coalescent Analysis of Icelandic Matrilineal and Patrilineal Genealogies," Am J Hum Genet. 2003 June; 72 (6) : 1370–1388.
Helgason, et al., "An Icelandic example of the impace of population structures on association studies," Nature Genetics 37, 90 - 95 (2004).
Download a podcast of Agnar Helgason's talk here.

December 3

Surnames, Y chromosomes, Vikings and Africans: genetics and the history of Britain
Mark Jobling, University of Leciester, UK.
PAPERS FOR SEMINAR: Jobling, "Surnames and Genetics," in Encyclopedia
of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.
King, et al., "Africans in Yorkshire: The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy," European Journal of Human Genetics (2007) 15, 288–293.
Bowden, et al., "Excavating Past Population Structures by Surname-Based Sampling" Mol. Biol. Evol. 25(2):301–309 (2008).
Download a podcast of Mark Jobling's talk here.