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Nineteenth-century population structure of Ireland and of the Irish in England and Wales: An analysis by isonymy (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, M., & MacRaild, D. (2009). Nineteenth-century population structure of Ireland and of the Irish in England and Wales: An analysis by isonymy. American Journal of Human Biology, 21(3), 283-289. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.20856

This article uses isonymy to test predictions about the genetic structure of Irish populations made on the basis of geography and population history, and compares the mid-nineteenth century population of Ireland with the late nineteenth century Irish... Read More about Nineteenth-century population structure of Ireland and of the Irish in England and Wales: An analysis by isonymy.

The origins of the Irish in Northern England: an isonymic analysis of data from the 1881 census (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, M., & MacRaild, D. (2009). The origins of the Irish in Northern England: an isonymic analysis of data from the 1881 census. Immigrants and Minorities, 27(2-3), 152-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619280903128095

n the mid nineteenth century, the Irish became the largest immigrant group in Britain. Despite impressions of homogeneity delivered by the dominant historiographies, these migrants were in reality complex and changing groups whose variegated nature h... Read More about The origins of the Irish in Northern England: an isonymic analysis of data from the 1881 census.

Paddy and Biddy no more: an evolutionary analysis of the decline in Irish Catholic forenames among descendants of 19th century Irish migrants to Britain (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, M., & MacRaild, D. (2009). Paddy and Biddy no more: an evolutionary analysis of the decline in Irish Catholic forenames among descendants of 19th century Irish migrants to Britain. Annals of Human Biology, 36(5), 595-608. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460903117459

Background: Recent research into cultural evolution has suggested that the distribution of many culturally neutral traits, including forenames, can be explained by a model of random copying, analogous to the process of random genetic drift. Aim: We t... Read More about Paddy and Biddy no more: an evolutionary analysis of the decline in Irish Catholic forenames among descendants of 19th century Irish migrants to Britain.

‘Thus the Colliers and their wives ...’ migration, mate choice and population structure of some County Durham parishes in the mid-nineteenth century. (2003)
Journal Article
Smith, M., & Fletcher-Jones, L. (2003). ‘Thus the Colliers and their wives ...’ migration, mate choice and population structure of some County Durham parishes in the mid-nineteenth century. Annals of Human Biology, 30(6), 678-692

Abstract: Aim: Historical accounts of the mining population in County Durham, UK, offer two persistent representations of demographic behaviour-substantial mobility and occupational endogamy-which would influence the distribution of genes in the popu... Read More about ‘Thus the Colliers and their wives ...’ migration, mate choice and population structure of some County Durham parishes in the mid-nineteenth century..

Archival research in physical anthropology. (2003)
Book Chapter
Smith, M. (2003). Archival research in physical anthropology. In A. Herring, & A. Swedlund (Eds.), Human Biologists in the Archives (311-335). Cambridge University Press

Genetic structure of the Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland: Evidence from civil registers of marriage 1840-1911 (2002)
Journal Article
Smith, M., & Bittles, A. (2002). Genetic structure of the Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland: Evidence from civil registers of marriage 1840-1911. Human Biology: The Official Publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, 74(4), 507-524

This paper uses marital migration data transcribed from the Civil Registers of Marriage 1840-1911 to estimate kinship from migration matrices and isonymy in the Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland. The distribution of religious denominations (Presbyteri... Read More about Genetic structure of the Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland: Evidence from civil registers of marriage 1840-1911.

Consanguineous marriage among the Fulani (2001)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., & Smith, M. (2001). Consanguineous marriage among the Fulani. Human Biology: The Official Publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, 73(4), 597-603

The Fulani are a broad ethnic category of nomadic and seminomadic pastoralists and agropastoralists living in the semiarid Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Fulani are patrilineal, patrilocal, and moderately polygynous, with arranged first marr... Read More about Consanguineous marriage among the Fulani.

Natural selection at the MJD locus: Phenotypic diversity, survival and fertility among Machado-Joseph Disease patients from the Azores (2001)
Journal Article
Lima, M., Smith, M., Silva, C., Abade, A., Mayer, F., & Coutinho, P. (2001). Natural selection at the MJD locus: Phenotypic diversity, survival and fertility among Machado-Joseph Disease patients from the Azores. Journal of Biosocial Science, 33(3), 361-373. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932001003613

Machado-Joseph Disease (MJD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder of adult onset, associated with the expansion of a (CAG)n tract in the coding region of the causative gene, localized on 14q32.1. Machado-Joseph Disease shows non-Mendel... Read More about Natural selection at the MJD locus: Phenotypic diversity, survival and fertility among Machado-Joseph Disease patients from the Azores.

Estimates of cousin marriage and mean inbreeding in the United Kingdom from 'birth briefs' (2001)
Journal Article
Smith, M. (2001). Estimates of cousin marriage and mean inbreeding in the United Kingdom from 'birth briefs'. Journal of Biosocial Science, 33(1), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932001000554

From 626 ascendant genealogies, known as 'birth briefs', deposited by members of the Society of Genealogists in their London library, rates of consanguineous marriage and coefficients of mean inbreeding () of offspring were estimated for cohorts of m... Read More about Estimates of cousin marriage and mean inbreeding in the United Kingdom from 'birth briefs'.