Human Variation ─ A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine

Specialists from specific fields explain how the genetics of the past decade or two has changed the understanding of human history, diversity, and race. They also explore what that new understanding means for science and society. The topics include perspectives on human variation through the lens of diversity and race, demographic events and evolutionary forces shaping European genetic diversity, genetic variation and adaptation in Africa and implications for human evolution and disease, how genes have illuminated the history of early Americans and Latino Americans, whether genes can help explain Indian social history, and personalized medicine and human genetic diversity. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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.