Basic concepts in quantitative genetics, including Mendelian genetics, gene action (additive, dominant, recessive), heritability, liability threshold model, means, variances, structure of DNA, types ...

Basic concepts in population genetics, including nucleotide diversity, random genetic drift, effective population size, coalescent theory, time to common ancestor, site frequency spectrum, linkage ...

The future is now: powerful new ways to treat genetic disorders and the ethical dilemmas they raise. There are an estimated 7,000 genetic disorders, most of which are caused by minute changes in our ...

THIS book presents the subject-matter of the Messenger Lectures delivered in 1945 at Cornell University by three geneticists, each outstanding in his own particular field. The lectures were addressed ...