Human Genetic Variation: What is the Big Picture?

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Air date:	Wednesday, June 7, 2006, 3:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
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Category:	WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Runtime:	01:12:55
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Description:	There is now a flood of data on sequence variation in the human genome. However, we still understand poorly the evolutionary processes that have given rise to the observed variation. Key issues include the relative contributions of genetic drift, balancing selection, local adaptation, and mutation-selection balance in producing phenotypically important variation, as well as the time scale on which most of this variation has arisen. This seminar will address these issues in light of new data on long-range-sequence variation at human loci that are known, or suspected, to have been under selection. For more information, visit http://www.gs.washington.edu/faculty/olson.htm The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide.

NLM Title:	Human genetic variation : what is the big picture? / Maynard V. Olson.
Author:	Olson, Maynard. National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
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Abstract:	(CIT): There is now a flood of data on sequence variation in the human genome. However, we still understand poorly the evolutionary processes that have given rise to the observed variation. Key issues include the relative contributions of genetic drift, balancing selection, local adaptation, and mutation-selection balance in producing phenotypically important variation, as well as the time scale on which most of this variation has arisen. This seminar will address these issues in light of new data on long-range-sequence variation at human loci that are known, or suspected, to have been under selection.
Subjects:	Genetic Variation
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast
NLM Classification:	QU 500
NLM ID:	101285714
CIT Live ID:	4293
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=4293

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