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Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine - Softcover

Arvinda Chakravanti

 
9781936113255: Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1936113252 ISBN 13: 9781936113255
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Press, 2014

Synopsis

A discussion of the genetic variation observed in humans across the globe, how this may affect disease prediction/treatment in the era of personal genomics, and its relationship to earlier notions of 'race' and diversity.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1936113252
ISBN 13 
9781936113255
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
200