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The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: January 2007 Posts: 7,623 Send Message	mgnv	Report	20 Jan 2012 08:56
	Dr King is seeking men with old local surnames from the north of England There's a specific list of names and it seems they want one of each to provide a DNA swab for their research project on surnames, DNA and Viking ancestry in the north of England. You can read further (with contact details) at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LANCSGEN/2012-01/1327004065 There's also a link (after drilling down) to their previous work [Mol Biol Evol (2009) 26 (5): 1093-1102.] http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/5/1093.full First time I've ever read a paper like this - pretty interesting, I thought.

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