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Consanguinity in Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Consanguinity in Context

An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations.

Genetic Disorders Among Arab Populations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 776

Genetic Disorders Among Arab Populations

Arab populations have their “own” genetic disorders, both universal and particular. Genetic diversity within these source populations, along with the fact that the rates of inbreeding are often high and family sizes are often large, constitute conditions that facilitate the emergence and detection of phenotypes explained notably by autosomal recessive inheritance; in which case, the use of homozygosity gene mapping can facilitate the discovery of the corresponding genes. The present book includes 5 parts dealing with various aspects that relate to the genetic structure of Arabs and minorities within the Arab world as well as genetic disorders prevalent in this part of the world. It inclu...

Vogel and Motulsky's Human Genetics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1006

Vogel and Motulsky's Human Genetics

The fourth edition of this classical reference book can once again be relied upon to present a cohesive and up-to-date exposition of all aspects of human and medical genetics. Human genetics has become one of the main basic sciences in medicine, and molecular genetics is increasingly becoming a major part of this field. This new edition integrates a wealth of new information - mainly describing the influence of the "molecular revolution" - including the principles of epigenetic processes which together create the phenotype of a human being. Other revisions are an improved layout, sub-division into a larger number of chapters, as well as two-colour print throughout for ease of reference, and many of the figures are now in full colour. For graduates and those already working in medical genetics.

Cousin Marriages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Cousin Marriages

Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in multi-ethnic Europe. It offers a cross-cultural exploration of practices of cousin marriage in the light of new genetic understanding of consanguineous marriage and its possible health risks. Overall, the volume presents a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote “healthy consanguinity” via new genetic technologies.

Genomics and Health in the Developing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1569

Genomics and Health in the Developing World

Genomics and Health in the Developing World provides detailed and comprehensive coverage of population structures, human genomics, and genome variation--with particular emphasis on medical and health issues--in the emerging economies and countries of the developing world. With sections dedicated to fundamtals of genetics and genomics, epidemiology of human disease, biomarkers, comparative genomics, developments in translational genomic medicine, current and future health strategies related to genetic disease, and pertinent legislative and social factors, this volume highlights the importance of utilizing genetics/genomics knowledge to promote and achieve optimal health in the developing worl...

Genes, Ethnicity, and Ageing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

Genes, Ethnicity, and Ageing

This volume takes its subtitle from the theme of the ASHB meeting for 1994 ?Genes, Ethnicity and Ageing?. The first paper is the annual conference lecture as delivered by the Honourable Fred Chaney, formerly Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the Federal Government of Australia. It considers some of the difficulties in delivering government services to indigenous peoples. Jim Chisholm puts an evolutionary perspective on some aspects of human behaviour, life history and Darwinian approaches to medicine. Carol Bower reviews the value of the Western Australian Birth Defects Registry and the contributions of registries to improved health care. Alexandra Brewis and Gokarna Regmi document determin...

Isolation, Migration and Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Isolation, Migration and Health

This book explores how the study of isolated and migrant populations can help us to understand disease etiology and the ongoing evolution of Mankind.

Dissolving Royal Marriages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Dissolving Royal Marriages

This book offers a chronological and geographical study of royal divorce cases from the Middle Ages through to the Reformation period.

Human Variation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Human Variation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03-17
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

The transition in anthropological and biomedical research methods over the past 50 years, from anthropometric and craniometric measurements to large-scale microarray genetic studies has resulted in continued revision of opinions and ideas relating to the factors and forces that drive human variation. Human Variation:From the Laboratory to the Field

Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2857

Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set

This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population subjects in ways that provoke thinking and lead to the creation of new perspectives, not just facts and equations to be memorized. The articles follow a theory-methods-applications approach and so offer a kind of "one-stop shop" that is well suited for students and professors who need non-technical summaries, such as political scientists, public affairs specialists, and others. Unlike shorter handbooks, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis offers a long overdue, thorough treatment of the field. Choosing the analytical m...