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To be blunt: What's in a name?

Looking for the point of seemingly pointless research.

A British study has just found "genetic links among men who share surnames". The rarer the name, the more likely the link.

Read the column here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on February 21, 2006 05:26 PM |

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I can only imagine the IQ of the funders for such an important research project.
Government perhaps?

Posted by: jim | February 22, 2006 05:44 PM

Interesting thought. I've always wondered about my own family names; where my german ancestry (Hofman)has ended up today, and the irish side of my family (Swain from McSwain)migrated to. It's known that when my family came over from Ireland that they seperated. It'd be cool to find out if I have other relatives that i did not know about.

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