Human Evolutionary GeneticsHuman Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of human populations. Starting with an overview of molecular genomics for the non-specialist (which can be a useful review for those with a more genetic background), the book shows h |
Contents
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HUMAN GENOME VARIATION | 43 |
FINDING AND ASSAYING GENOME DIVERSITY | 95 |
PROCESSES SHAPING DIVERSITY | 133 |
MAKING INFERENCES FROM DIVERSITY | 167 |
HUMANS AS APES | 225 |
WHAT GENETIC CHANGES HAVE MADE US HUMAN? | 257 |
AGRICULTURAL EXPANSIONS | 363 |
INTO NEWFOUND LANDS | 409 |
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN POPULATIONS MEET | 443 |
UNDERSTANDING THE PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE OF PHENOTYPIC VARIATION | 477 |
EVOLUTIONARY INSIGHTS INTO SIMPLE GENETIC DISEASES | 517 |
EVOLUTION AND COMPLEX DISEASES | 541 |
IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION | 571 |
Appendix | 601 |
Other editions - View all
Human Evolutionary Genetics Mark Jobling,Edward Hollox,Toomas Kivisild,Chris Tyler-Smith Limited preview - 2013 |
Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples & Disease Mark A. Jobling,Matthew Hurles,Chris Tyler-Smith No preview available - 2004 |
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adaptation admixture Africa agriculture allele frequency amino acid analysis ancestral populations ancient DNA apes archaeological associated autosomal Biol cell changes chapter chimpanzees chromosome coalescent common ancestor copy number deletion Denisovan detect distribution DNA sequence effective population effective population size estimates European evidence evolution example Figure fossils gene flow genetic distance genetic diversity genetic drift genetic variation genome sequence genomewide genotype geographical gorilla groups haplogroup haplotype HapMap hominins Human Evolutionary Genetics human genome human populations identified increase individuals languages lineages loci locus male methods microsatellite migration minisatellites mitochondrial modern humans molecular molecules mtDNA mutation rate NatlAcad natural selection Neanderthals Neolithic nonsynonymous nucleotide ofthe OMIM origin Paleolithic patterns phenotype phylogenetic phylogeny PLoS polymorphisms positive selection primates protein recombination region Remote Oceania repeat result samples Section SNPs species statistical studies tion traits tree Y chromosome Y-chromosomal