Claerhout S., Noppe H., Cohn B., Borry P. (2024) "Opt-in or out? Public perspectives on forensic DNA kinship investigations within the Dutch-speaking community". Heliyon. 10(9): e30074

Claerhout S., Wijnands M., Hoogenboom J., Coreelman H., Sijen T., Decorte R., van der Gaag K. J. (2024) "oYSTeR: A new Y-chromosomal ancestor estimator to improve speed, accuracy andversatility for forensic Y-DNA kinship investigations". Forensic Science International: Genetics supplement series. (under review).

Coreelman H., Coeman C., Decorte R., Decaestecker E., Claerhout S. (2024) "More Y-STRs, Better Results? Predicting Evolutionary Y-Haplogroups R1b and I1 with NevGen using 27 versus 46 Y-STRs". Forensic Science International: Genetics supplement series. (under review).

Claerhout S. (2023) "Opt-in or out? Public opinion on the use of human genetics for forensic familial DNA searching". Symposium in Statistical and Quantitative Genetics. Seattle, Washington, USA.

Ralf A., Montiel González D., Zandstra D., van Wersch B., Kousouri N., de Knijff P., Adnan A., Claerhout S., Ghanbari M., Larmuseau M., Kayser M. (2023) "Large-scale pedigree analysis highlights rapidly mutating Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats for differentiating patrilineal relatives and predicting their degrees of consanguinity". Human Genetetics.

Claerhout S. (2022) "Dader onbekend". Uitgeverij Lannoo. 1-296.

Claerhout S., Vanpaemel S., Mandev S. G., Baele G., Decorte R. (2022) "Y-chromosomal kinship estimation for forensic familial searching: YMrCA to the rescue". Forensic Science International: Genetics supplement series. 8, 173-175.

Claerhout S., Noppe H. (2022) "Opt-in or out? Public opinion on the use of human genetics for forensic familial DNA searching". European Society for Human Genetics. Vienna

Claerhout S., Verstraete P., Warnez L., Vanpaemel S., Larmuseau M.H.D., Decorte R. (2021) "CSYseq: The first Y-chromosome sequencing tool typing a large number of Y-SNPs and Y-STRs to unravel worldwide human population genetics". PLOS Genetics. 17(9): e1009758

Claerhout S., Vanpaemel S., Antiga L.G., Gill M.S., Baele G., Decorte R. (2021) "YMrCA: improving Y-chromosomal ancestor time estimation for DNA kinship research". Human Mutation. 1-14

Claerhout S., Roelens J., Van der Haegen M., Verstraete P., Larmuseau M.H.D., Decorte R. (2020) "Ysurnames? The patrilineal Y-chromosome and surname correlation for DNA kinship research". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 44: 102204.

Larmuseau M.H.D., Van den Berg P., Claerhout S., Calafell F., Boattini A., Gruyters L., Vandenbosch M., Nivelle K., Decorte R., Wenseleers T. (2019) "A historical-genetic reconstruction of human extra-pair paternity". Current Biology. 29, 4102-4107.

Altena E., Smeding R., van der Gaag K.J., Larmuseau M.H D., Decorte R., Lao, O., Kayser M., Kraaijenbrink T., de Knijff P. (2020) "The Dutch Y-chromosomal landscape". European Journal of Human Genetics. 28 (3), 287-299.

Claerhout S., Defraye C., Decorte R. (2019) "Validation of Y-ancestor time calculators for forensic familial searching". Forensic Science International: Genetics supplement series. 7, 411-413.

Claerhout S., Van der Haegen M., Vangeel L., Larmuseau M.H.D., Decorte R. (2018) "A game of hide and seq: Identification of parallel Y-STR evolution in deep-rooting pedigrees". European Journal of Human Genetics. 27, 637-646.

Claerhout S., Vandenbosch M., Nivelle K., Gruyters L., Peeters A., Larmuseau M.H.D., Decorte R. (2018) "Determining Y-STR mutation rates in deep-rooting genealogies: Identification of haplogroup differences". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 34, 1-10.

Larmuseau M., Calafell F., Princen S., Decorte R., Soen V. (2018) "The Black Legend on the Spanish presence in the Low Countries: verifying shared beliefs on genetic ancestry". American Journal Of Physical Anthropology. 166 (1), 219-227.

Larmuseau M.H.D., Claerhout S., Gruyters L., Nivelle K., Vandenbosch M., Peeters A., van den Berg P., Wenseleers T., Decorte R. (2017) "Genetic-genealogy approach reveals low rate of extrapair paternity in historical Dutch populations". American Journal of Human Biology. 29, 1-9. 

Larmuseau, M.H.D., Otten, G.P P L., Decorte, R., Van Damme, P., Moisse, M. (2017) "Defining Y-SNP variation among the Flemish population (Western Europe) by full genome sequencing". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 31.

Larmuseau M., Vessi A., Jobling M.A., Van Geystelen A., Primativo G., Biondi G., Martínez-Labarga C., Ottoni C., Decorte R., Rickards O. (2015) "The paternal landscape along the Bight of Benin - Testing regional representativeness of West-African population samples using Y-chromosomal markers". PLoS One. 10 (11), e0141510.

Larmuseau M., Boon N., Vanderheyden N., Van Geystelen A., Larmuseau H., Matthijs K., De Clercq W., Decorte R. (2015) "High Y chromosomal diversity and low relatedness between paternal lineages on a communal scale in the Western European Low Countries during the surname establishment". Heredity. 115, 3-12.

Larmuseau, M., Van Geystelen, A., Kayser, M., van Oven, M., Decorte, R. (2015) "Towards a consensus Y-chromosomal phylogeny and Y-SNP set in forensics in the next-generation sequencing era". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 15, 39-42.  

Van Geystelen A., Wenseleers T., Decorte R., Caspers M., Larmuseau M. (2014) "In silico detection of phylogenetic informative Y-chromosomal SNPs from WGS data". Electrophoresis. 35 (21), 3102-3110.

Purps J., Siegert S., Willuweit S., Nagy M., Alves C., Salazar R., Angustia S.M T., Santos L.H., Anslinger K., Bayer B., Ayub Q., Wei W., Xue Y., Tyler-Smith C., ..., Decorte R., Larmuseau M., ..., Roewer, L. (2014) "A global analysis of Y-chromosomal haplotype diversity for 23 STR loci". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 12, 12-23.

Ballantyne K.N., Ralf A., Aboukhalid R., Achakzai N.M., Anjos M.J., Ayub Q., Balazic J., Ballantyne J., Ballard D.J., Berger B., Bobillo C., ..., Decorte R., ..., Kayser, M. (2014) "Toward Male Individualization with Rapidly Mutating Y-Chromosomal Short Tandem Repeats". Human Mutation. 35 (8), 1021-1032. 

Larmuseau M., Vanderheyden N., Van Geystelen A., Decorte R. (2014) "A substantially lower frequency of uninformative matches between 23 versus 17 Y-STR haplotypes in north western Europe". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 11, 214-219.

Larmuseau, M., Delorme, P., Germain, P., Vanderheyden, N., Gilissen, A., Van Geystelen, A., Cassiman, J-J., Decorte, R. (2014) "Genetic genealogy reveals true Y haplogroup of House of Bourbon contradicting recent identification of the presumed remains of two French Kings". European Journal of Human Genetics. 22, 681-687.

Larmuseau M., Vanderheyden N., Van Geystelen A., van Oven M., de Knijff P., Decorte R. (2014) "Recent radiation within Y-chromosomal haplogroup R-M269 resulted in high Y-STR haplotype resemblance". Annals of Human Genetics. 78, 92-103.

van Oven M., Van Geystelen A., Kayser M., Decorte R., Larmuseau M. (2014) "Seeing the wood for the trees: a minimal reference phylogeny for the human Y chromosome". Human Mutation. 35, 187-191.

Larmuseau M., Cassiman J-J., Decorte R. (2014) "Controversial identification in a historical case is illustrative of the complexity of DNA typing in forensic research". Response to Charlier et al. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 9.

Larmuseau M., Vanderheyden N., Van Geystelen A., van Oven M., Kayser M., Decorte R. (2014) "Increasing phylogenetic resolution still informative for Y chromosomal studies on West-European populations". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 9, 179-185.

 
Ballantyne K.N., Ralf A., Aboukhalid R., Achakzai N.M., Anjos M.J., Ayub Q., Balažic J., Ballantyne J., Ballard D.J., Berger B., Bobillo C., ..., Decorte R., ..., Kayser M. (2014) "Towards complete male individualization with rapidly mutating Y-chromosomal STRs". Human Mutation. 35 (8), 1021-1032. 

Larmuseau M.H D.*, Vanoverbeke J.*, Van Geystelen A., Defraene G., Vanderheyden N., Matthys K., Wenseleers T., Decorte R. (*) joint first author (2013) "Low historical rates of cuckoldry in a Western European human population traced by Y-chromosome and genealogical data". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1772), 20132400. 

Van Geystelen A., Decorte R., Larmuseau M. (2013) "Updating the Y-chromosomal phylogenetic tree for forensic applications based on whole genome SNPs". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 7 (6), 573-580. 

Larmuseau M., Van Geystelen A., van Oven M., Decorte R. (2013). "Genetic genealogy comes of age - Perspectives on the use of deep-rooted pedigrees in human population genetic". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 150, 505-511.

Van Geystelen, A., Decorte, R., Larmuseau, M. (2013) "AMY-tree: a method to use whole genome SNP calling for Y chromosomal phylogenetic applications". BMC Genomics. 14, 101.

Larmuseau M., Vanoverbeke J., Gielis G., Vanderheyden N., Larmuseau H., Decorte R. (2012) "In the name of the migrant father - Analysis of surname origin identifies historic admixture events undetectable from genealogical records". Heredity. 109 (2), 90-95.

Larmuseau M., Ottoni C., Raeymaekers J., Vanderheyden N., Larmuseau H., Decorte R. (2012) "Temporal differentiation across a West-European Y-chromosomal cline - genealogy as a tool in human population genetics". European Journal Of Human Genetics. 20 (4), 434-440. 

Larmuseau M., Vanderheyden N., Jacobs M., Coomans M., Larno L., Decorte R. (2011) "Micro-geographic distribution of Y-chromosomal variation in the central-western European region Brabant". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 5 (2), 95-99. 

Ballantyne K., Goedbloed M., Fang R., Schaap O., Lao O., Wollstein A., Choi Y., van Duijn K., Vermeulen M., Brauer S., Decorte R., Poetsch M., von Wurmb-Schwark N., de Knijff P., Labuda D., Vezina H., Knoblauch H., Lessig R., Roewer L., Ploski R., Dobosz T., Henke L., Henke J., Furtado M., Kayser M. (2010) "Mutability of Y-chromosomal microsatellites: rates, characteristics, molecular bases and forensic implications". American Journal of Human Genetics. 87 (3), 341-353.

Jacobs M., Janssen L., Vanderheyden N., Bekaert B., Van de Voorde W., Decorte R. (2009) "Development and evaluation of multiplex Y-STR assays for application in molecular genealogy". Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series. 2 (1), 57-59. 

De Maesschalck K., Vanhoutte E., Knaepen K., Vanderheyden N., Cassiman J-J., Decorte R. (2005) "Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in a Belgian population sample and identification of a micro-variant with a flanking site mutation at DYS19". Forensic Science International. 152 (1), 89-94.

Zaharova B., Andonova S., Gilissen A., Cassiman J-J., Decorte R., Kremensky I. (2001). "Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in three major population groups in Bulgaria". Forensic Science International. 124 (2), 182-6.  

Rosser Z.H., Zerjal T., Hurles M.E., Adojaan M., Alavantic D., Amorim A., Amos W., Armenteros M., Arroyo E., Barbujani G., Beckman G., Beckman L., Bertranpetit J., Bosch E., Bradley D.G., Brede G., Cooper G., Côrte-Real H.B., de Knijff P., Decorte R., ..., Jobling M.A. (2000) "Y-chromosomal diversity in Europe is clinal and influenced primarily by geography, rather than by language". American Journal of Human Genetics. 67 (6), 1526-43.