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Chakravarti, Aravinda:
Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine
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€ 48,50
Einband: Paperback
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press New York Erscheinungsdatum: 10/2014 Seiten: 200 pp. (approx.), Abbildungen: illus, index
ISBN-10: 1-936113-25-2 ISBN-13: 9781936113255
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Beschreibung Since the appearance of modern humans in Africa ~200,000 years ago, we have migrated around the globe and accumulated genetic variations that affect our appearance, skin color, food tolerance, and susceptibility to different diseases. This book provides a state-of-the-art view of human genetic variation and what we can infer from it, surveying the genetic diversity seen in Africa, Europe, the Americas and India, and discussing how this new knowledge can be used to improve human health in the era of personalized medicine.
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Inhalt 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
Zielgruppe/Leser Genetics and Genome Science; Evolution
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