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9781621820901

Human Variation A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine

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    9781621820901

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  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2014-09-30
  • Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Author Biography


Aravinda Chakravarti is Director, Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, and Professor of Medicine of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Chakravarti's is a human geneticist and a computational biologist renowned for his studies of predisposing genetic factors in complex human diseases as diabetes, heart disease and mental illness.
He is the 2008 President of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). Dr. Chakravarti is one of the Editors-in-Chief of Genome Research, and serves on the Advisory and Editorial Boards of numerous national and international journals, boards and societies. He is also a past member of the NIH National Advisory Council of the National Human Genome Research Institute, chaired the NIH Subcommittee on the 3rd 5-year Genome Project Plan, and continues to serve on several NIH panels.

Table of Contents


(preliminary)
Introduction
Aravinda Chakravarti
Human Variation in Phenotypes, Disease and their Genes
Aravinda Chakravarti
What Type of Person Are You? Old-Fashioned Thinking Even in Modern Science
Kenneth M. Weiss and Brian W. Lambert
Race in Biological and Biomedical Research
Richard S. Cooper
Genetic Variation and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Human Evolution and Disease
Felicia Gomez, Jibril Hirbo and Sarah A. Tishkoff
Social Diversity in Humans: Implications and Hidden Consequences for Biological Research
Troy Duster
Genetic Diversity in Europe
Krishna Veeramah and John Novembre
A Genomic View of Peopling and Population Structure of India
Partha P. Majumder and Analahba Basu
Will Genetics Help Us Understand Indian Social History?
Romila Thapar
Human Genetic Variation: Americas
Andres Ruiz-Linares
Population Genetics of Admixture: Theory, Inference, and Future Directions
Carlos D. Bustamante and Simon Gravel
Personalized Medicine and Human Genetic Diversity
Yi-Fan Lu, David B. Goldstein, Misha Angrist, and Gianpiero Cavalleri
Index

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