Genetic Variation and Human Disease
Principles and Evolutionary Approaches
Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology; 11;
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 27 January 1995
- ISBN 9780521336604
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages380 pages
- Size 229x152x21 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 71 b/w illus. 42 tables 0
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Short description:
This book provides an overview of the concepts and methods needed to understand the genetic basis of biological traits, including disease, in humans.
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Recent developments in molecular and computational methods have made it possible to identify the genetic basis of any biological trait, and have led to spectacular advances in the study of human disease. This book provides an overview of the concepts and methods needed to understand the genetic basis of biological traits, including disease, in humans. Using examples of qualitative and quantitative phenotypes, Professor Weiss shows how genetic variation may be quantified, and how relationships between genotype and phenotype may be inferred. This book will appeal to many biologists and biological anthropologists interested in the genetic basis of biological traits, as well as to epidemiologists, biomedical scientists, human geneticists and molecular biologists.
'A well-documented, clearly written, scholarly text.' S. Antonarakis, Trends in Genetics
Table of Contents:
Preface; Part I. Genes and Their Expression: 1. What is a gene?; 2. The logic of the genome; 3. Concepts of frequency and association in populations; 4. Genes and phenotypes in populations; Part II. Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology: Inference from Observational Data: 5. Segregation analysis: discrete traits in families; 6. Segregation analysis: quantitative traits in families; 7. Linkage analysis: finding and mapping genes for qualitative traits; 8. Linkage analysis: finding and mapping genes for quantitative traits; Part III. Evolution: The Time Dimension in Populations: 9. Genes over time and space; 10. Reconstructing history: the footprints of evolution; 11. Evolution generates heterogeneity; Part IV. Modification of the Inherited Genotype: The Time Dimension in Individuals: 12. Phenotype amplification by the environment; 13. Infectious disease: the response to biological challenge; 14. Variation within the inherited genotype; 15. Cancer and ageing: a microcosm of evolution during life; Afterwords: towards a unified general model; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
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