Dr Turi E. King

Contact Details

Building: Adrian Building

Room: G2-3

Telephone (lab): internal 3377 external +44 (0)116 2523377

Fax: +44 (0)116 2523378

Email: tek2@le.ac.uk

Current projects

• What's in a name? Applying patrilineal surnames to forensics, population history and genetic epidemiology.

Collaborations

• The Social Impact of DNA Testing: This is a sociology study being carried out by Wendy Roth at the University of British Columbia about how getting information about your ancestry from genetic tests may affect your identity, attitudes, or activities. It consists of an online survey that should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. If you would like to participate, please click here.

• People of the British Isles project. If you are interested in taking part in the project, please click here.

PhD Thesis

• Surnames and genetic structure: a molecular analysis using Y-chromosomal DNA polymorphisms

  Winner of School of Biological Sciences PhD Prize 2008

  Selected as part of the Doctoral Inaugural Lecture series 2008-2009

Publications

• King, T.E. and Jobling, M.A. (2009) Trends Genet. 25, 351-360. What’s in a name? - Y chromosomes, surnames, and the genetic genealogy revolution. Authors' revised version of this article available here, published version here. Please visit the journal website.
• King, T.E. and Jobling, M.A. (2009) Mol. Biol. Evol. 26, 1093-1102. Founders, drift and infidelity: the relationship between Y chromosome diversity and patrilineal surnames. Article available as Open Access.
• King, T.E., Parkin, EJ., Swinfield, G., Cruciani, F., Scozzari, R., Rosa, A., Lim, S., Xue, Y., Tyler-Smith, C., and Jobling, M.A. (2007) Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 15, 288-293. Africans in Yorkshire? - the deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy. Article available as Open Access from journal website.
• King, T.E., Bowden, G.R., Balaresque, P., Adams, S.M., Shanks, M.E. and Jobling, M.A. (2007) Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 132, 584-589. Thomas Jefferson's Y chromosome belongs to a rare European lineage.
• 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. (2007) Mol. Biol. Evol. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msm255. Excavating past population structures by surname-based sampling: the genetic legacy of the Vikings in northwest England. Article available as Open Access.
• King, T.E., Ballereau, S.J., Schurer, K. and Jobling, M.A. (2006) Curr. Biol. 16, 384-388. Genetic signatures of coancestry within surnames. You can download the final pre-publication version of the article here, and obtain the published pdf from the Current Biology website.
• Adams, S.M., King, T.E., Bosch, E., and Jobling M.A. (2006) Forensic Sci. Int. 159, 14-20. The case of the unreliable SNP: recurrent back-mutation of Y-chromosomal marker P25 through gene conversion.
• King, T.E., Bosch, E., Adams, S. Parkin, E.J., Rosser, Z.H., Jobling, M.A. (2005) J. Med. Genet. 42, 366-368. Inadvertent diagnosis of male infertility through genealogical DNA testing. Article available as Open Access from journal website.
• Jobling, M.A. and King, T.E. (2003) The distribution of Y-chromosomal haplotypes: forensic implications. Progress in Forensic Genetics 10, 70-72.
• The Y Chromosome Consortium (2002) Genome Res. 12, 339-348. A nomenclature system for the tree of human Y-chromosomal binary haplogroups.
• Pandya, A., King, T.E., Santos, F.R., Taylor, P.G., Thangaraj, K., Singh, L., Jobling, M.A. and Tyler-Smith, C. (1998) A polymorphic human Y-chromosomal G to A transition found in India. Indian Journal of Human Genetics 4, 52-61.

Education

• BA Hons, University of Cambridge
• MSc in Molecular Genetics, University of Leicester
• PhD, University of Leicester

Teaching, Tutorials

• DNA and the Past
• Genes MB1005
• Genes BS1005
• Medical Genetics MB3050

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Last updated: November 5, 2009
Turi E. King
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