Origin and History of Family through Genetics
A special issue of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 October 2023) | Viewed by 6236
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I have recently been asked to serve as Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the open access, peer-reviewed International Journal of Genealogy (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy). As you can see from their recent Issues, the journal is wide-ranging and inclusive of several different academic perspectives. Furthermore, the journal is indexed in JCR index. For this Issue, the Editorial Board wishes to discuss and examine how genetic analysis can lead to greater knowledge about the “Family” origin and history, through kinship analysis or lineage analysis. I would like to invite you to contribute an article of your choosing on an aspect or application of genetic analysis to family and kinship.
Papers that study or work on possible family groups from different perspectives and using different genetic markers, both autosomal and lineage markers, will be accepted as long as they provide relevant information on the concept of family in different cultures and historical periods. Bibliographic review papers on the same topic will also be accepted. We invite contributors to discuss and examine how genetic analysis can lead to greater knowledge about the “Family” concept and kinship, whether it is close or not, using both traditional tools and new human genotype methodologies.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send this to the Guest Editors ([email protected]) or to the Genealogy editorial office ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors for the purposes of ensuring a proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer-review process.
Mateusz Baca, Karolina Doan, Maciej Sobczyk, Anna Stankovic, Piotr Węgleński. 2012. Ancient DNA reveals kinship burial patterns of a pre-Columbian Andean community. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-13-30
Monroy Kuhn JM, Jakobsson M, Gu¨nther T (2018) Estimating genetic kin relationships in prehistoric populations. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0195491. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0195491
Sara Palomo-Díez, Ángel Esparza Arroyo, Mirian Tirado-Vizcaíno, Javier Velasco Vázquez, Ana María López-Parra, Cláudia Gomes, Carlos Baeza-Richer and Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo. 2018. Kinship analysis and allelic dropout: a forensic approach on an archaeological case. Annals of Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2018.1484159
Cristina Gamba, Eva Fernández, Mirian Tirado, Francisco Pastor, Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo. 2011. Brief Comunication: Ancient nuclear DNA and kinship analysis: the case of a medieval burial in San Esteban Church in Cuellar (Segovia, Central Spain). Am J Phys Anthropol. 2011 Mar;144(3):485–91. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21451. Epub 2010 Dec 17.
Gomes, Cláudia; Remolins, Gerard; López Parra, A. M.; Gibaja, Juan Francisco CSIC; Fondevila, Maria; Angelis, Flavio de; Veltre, Virginia; Subirà, Mª Eulàlia; Baeza-Richer, Carlos; Guerrero, Diana; Palomo-Díez, S.; Martínez-Labarga, Cristina; Labajo-González, Elena; Lareu, Maria Victoria; Perea-Pérez, Bernardo; Arroyo Pardo, E. 2020. Paleogenetic evidence of a Pyrenean Neolithic family: Kinship, physical appearance and biogeography multidisciplinary analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science (123): Article 105226 (2020).
Dr. Sara Palomo-Díez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- kinship
- family
- ancient DNA
- autosomal DNA
- mitochondrial DNA
- Y chromosome
- X chromosome
- archaeology
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