Patent ID: 7248970
Filing Date: 2007-07-24
Classification: C12Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for predicting the surname of a male from a sample of his tissue or DNA, the method comprising: (a) analyzing the Y chromosomes of a plurality of males having the same surname at a plurality of microsatellite loci to identify the alleles present at a number of microsatellite loci thereby defining a Y chromosome haplotype for each male analyzed; (b) correlating the surname of the plurality of males with the Y chromosome haplotypes of the plurality of males to define one or more Y chromosome haplotypes correlated with the surname; (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) by analyzing the Y chromosomes of males with other surnames to provide a database correlating each surname to one or more Y chromosome haplotypes; (d) analyzing the Y chromosome from a tissue or DNA sample of the male to identify the allele present at a variety of microsatellite loci to define a Y chromosome haplotype for the male; and (e) comparing the Y chromosome haplotype for the male with the haplotypes in the database to predict the surname of the male.