Roberta Estes authored or co-authored the following papers:
- Revealing American Indian and Minority Heritage Using Y-line, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X Chromosomal Testing Data Combined with Pedigree Analysis
- Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population
- Where Have All the Indians Gone – Native American Eastern Seaboard Dispersal, Genealogy and DNA in Relation to Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony of Roanoke