Selected recent primary publications

King, T.E., Ballereau, S. J., Schürer, K. and JOBLING, M.A. (2006) Genetic signatures of coancestry within surnames. Curr. Biol. 16, 384-388. (PubMed) (LRA)

JOBLING, M.A., Lo, I.C.C., Turner, D.J., Bowden, G.R., Lee, A.C., Xue, Y., Carvalho-Silva, D., Hurles, M.E., Adams, S.M., Chang, Y.M., Kraaijenbrink, T., Henke, J., Guanti, G., McKeown, B., van Oorschot, R.A.H., Mitchell, R.J., de Knijff, P., Tyler-Smith, C. and Parkin, E.J. (2007) Structural variation on the short arm of the human Y chromosome: recurrent multigene deletions encompassing Amelogenin Y. Hum. Mol. Genet. 16, 307-316.
(PubMed) (LRA)

King, T.E., Parkin, E.J., Swinfield, G., Cruciani, F., Scozzari, R., Rosa, A., Lim, S.-K., Xue, Y., Tyler-Smith, C. and JOBLING, M.A. (2007) Africans in Yorkshire? - the deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy. Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 15, 288-293. (PubMed) (LRA)

Bowden, G.R., Balaresque, P., King, T.E., Hansen, Z., Lee, A.C., Pergl-Wilson, G., Hurley, E., Roberts, S.J., Waite, P., Jesch, J., Jones, A.L., Thomas, M.G., Harding, S.E. and JOBLING, M.A. (2008) Excavating past population structures by surname-based sampling: the genetic legacy of the Vikings in northwest England. Mol. Biol. Evol. 25, 301-309. (PubMed) (LRA)

Shanks, M.E., May, C.A., Dubrova, Y.E., Balaresque, P., Rosser, Z.H., Adams, S.M. and JOBLING, M.A. (2008) Complex germline and somatic mutation processes at a haploid human minisatellite shown by single-molecule analysis. Mutat. Res., 648, 46-53. (PubMed) (LRA)

Adams, S.M., Bosch, E., Balaresque, P.L., Ballereau, S.J., Lee, A.C., Arroyo, E., López-Parra, A.M., Aler, M., Gisbert-Grifo, M.S., Carracedo, A., Lavinha, J., Martínez-Jarreta, B., Quintana-Murci, L., Picornell, A., Ramon, M., Skorecki, K., Behar, D.M., Calafell, F. and JOBLING, M.A. (2008) The genetic legacy of religious diversity and intolerance: paternal lineages of Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula. Am. J. Hum. Genet., 83, 725-736. (PubMed) (LRA)

King, T.E. and JOBLING, M.A. (2009) Founders, drift and infidelity: the relationship between Y chromosome diversity and patrilineal surnames. Mol. Biol. Evol., 26, 1093-1102. (PubMed) (LRA)

Rosser, Z.H., Balaresque, P. and JOBLING, M.A. (2009) Gene conversion between the X chromosome and the male-specific region of the Y chromosome at a translocation hotspot. Am. J. Hum. Genet., 85, 130-134.
(PubMed) (LRA)

Balaresque, P., Bowden, G.R., Adams, S.M., Leung, H.-Y., King, T.E., Rosser, Z.H., Goodwin, J., Moisan, J.-P., Richard, C., Millward, A., Demaine, A.G., Barbujani, G., Previderè, C., Wilson, I.J., Tyler-Smith, C. and JOBLING, M.A. (2010) A predominantly Neolithic origin for European paternal lineages. PLoS Biol., 8, e1000285. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000285. (PubMed) (LRA)

Review articles and books

JOBLING, M.A. and Tyler-Smith, C. (2003) The human Y chromosome: an evolutionary marker comes of age. Nature Rev. Genet. 4, 598-612. (PubMed)

JOBLING, M.A. and Gill, P. (2004) Encoded evidence: DNA in forensic analysis. Nature Rev. Genet. 5, 739-751. (PubMed)

JOBLING, M.A, Hurles, M.E. and Tyler-Smith, C. (2004) Human Evolutionary Genetics: origins, peoples and disease. 523pp., Garland Science, New York/Abingdon.

JOBLING, M.A. (2008) The Y chromosome: it’s a man thing. Biol. Sci. Rev., 20, 2-6. Review article in magazine for A-level Biology students.

JOBLING, M.A. (2008) Copy number variation on the human Y chromosome. Cytogenet. Genome Res., 123, 253-262. (PubMed)

King, T.E. and JOBLING, M.A. (2009) What’s in a name? - Y chromosomes, surnames, and the genetic genealogy revolution. Trends Genet., 25, 351-360. (PubMed)

Harding, S., JOBLING, M. and King, T. (2010) Viking DNA: The Wirral and West Lancashire Project. 148pp., Nottingham University Press, Nottingham.

Batini, C. and JOBLING, M.A. (2011) The jigsaw puzzle of our African ancestry: unsolved, or unsolvable? Genome Biol. 12, 118. (PubMed)

I also write a regular column for the open-access journal Investigative Genetics.