The finding highlights the importance ancient Egyptians placed on maternal lines of descent, Drosou's group contends. (sciencenews.org)
The research mentioned on maternal line mitochondria and the paternal Y is the work of Bryan Sykes who wrote The Seven Daughter's of Eve and Adam's Curse. (faith.org.uk)
So we've agreed that if we combine his strength with mine, we can create a breakthrough outcome in curing maternal line genetic disease, on which he is now focusing,» the paper quotes Hwang as saying. (sciencemag.org)