Human Variation

A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine
Herausgeber: Chakravarti, Aravinda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a state-of-the-art view of human genetic variation and what we can infer from it, surveying: - How populations around the globe differ genetically - 'Race' and biology - How genetic variation affects our health - The future of personalized medicine

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 187mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781621820901
• ISBN-10: 1621820904
• Artikelnr.: 40202320

Autorenporträt

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.