Academic Articles & Research Papers

A history of genetics

Note from the Publishers Introduction Author's Preface Chapter 1: Before Mendel Chapter 2: Mendel Chapter 3: 1866 to 1900 Chapter 4: The Rediscovery Chapter 5: Genes and Chromosomes Chapter 6: Linkage Chapter 7: The Fly Room Chapter 8: Deve...

Genetics, Paleontology, and Evolution

Genetics of MDS

Our knowledge about the genetics of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and related myeloid disorders has been dramatically improved during the past decade, in which revolutionized sequencing technologies have played a major role. Through inten...

Genetics of Obesity

Genetics of Human Obesities: Introductory Notes (C. Bouchard). Etiology and Prevalence of Obesity (G.A. Bray). Nongenetic Determinants of Obesity and Body Fat Topography (J.O. Hill, M.J. Pagliassotti, and J.C. Peters). Overview of the Adopt...

Families, kinship and genetics

I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. Thomas Hardy , 1840–1928: Heredity. Introduction Genetics concerns families and kinship. ...

Introduction to conservation genetics

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They con...

Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

Falconer, D. S., Introduction to Quantitative Genetics , The Ronald Press Company, New York. 364 pp. $6.00. The author’s aim is, “to provide an introductory textbook of quantitative genetics, with emphasis on general principles rather than ...

Genetics

Reproduction and the Reduction of Genetics

In this essay I develop a new, unified perspective on genetics, development, and reproduction. I suggest a heuristic use of theory reduction to address an issue of contemporary theoretical importance: the framing of a theory of developmenta...

Genetics and breeding

The Genetics of Human Populations

A spate of books has appeared in the last several years on population genetics. They range from Crow and Kimura's An Introduction to Population Genetics and Ewens's...

Principles of Population Genetics.

Genetic and Phenotypic Variation.- Organisation of Genetic Variation.- Random Genetic Drift.- Mutation and the Neutral Theory.- Darwinian Selection.- Inbreeding, Population Subdivision, and Migration.- Molecular Population Genetics.- Evolut...

Advances in genetics

Advances in Genetics provides the latest information on the rapidly evolving field of genetics, presenting new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of the topic. The book continually publishes im...

Genetics : a conceptual approach

Introduction to Genetics Genetics Is Important to Us Individually, to Society, and to the Study of Biology Humans Have Been Using Genetics for Thousands of Years A Few Fundamental Concepts Are Important for the Start of Our Journey into Gen...

The Genetics of Schizophrenia

Research into the etiology of schizophrenia, particularly the possible genetic basis, has never been as interesting and as provocative as in the past three years. Sullivan looks critically at the key research....

New Patterns in Genetics and Development

Looks at the impact of advances in genetics on our understanding of the development of multi-cellular organisms and also the older problem of morphogenesis -the appearance of organized structure within a range of sizes from the cellular org...

Landscape Genetics

Landscape genetics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field that integrates approaches from population genetics and landscape ecology. In the context of habitat fragmentation, the current focus of landscape genetics is on assessing the...

Genes, Genetics, and Epigenetics: A Correspondence

Over the past months, as this special issue took shape, the Editors of Science have monitored an exchange of seven letters initiated by three queries from M. Bacon. These queries concern the popular definitions of "genes," "genetics," and "...

The Genetics of Eating Disorders

Over the past decade, considerable advances have been made in understanding genetic influences on eating pathology. Eating disorders aggregate in families, and twin studies reveal that additive genetic factors account for approximately 40% ...

The Genetics of Psoriasis

The genetics of psoriasis has been studied with a questionnaire requesting information on presence or absence of the disease in relatives of 698 probands and 104 controls (spouses of probands). A statistically significant familial concentra...