11th International Congress of Human Genetics

Session Details

Genome Evolution and Population Migration

Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:00 -13:00

M1/M2

Co-Chair Michele Ramsay NHLS and University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa

Functional conserved non-coding sequences add a new dimension to candidate disease regions of the human genome
  • Debbie K Goode, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
  • Oscillating evolution of a mammalian locus with overlapping reading frames: XLas/ALEX relay
  • Anton Nekrutenko, Penn State University, United States
  • Darwin’s Fingerprint: Accelerated recent adaptive evolution in humans
  • Robert K Moyzis, 1Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine College of Medicine. Irvine, CA 92697, United States
  • Male mutation bias in the age of genomics: Who should be in the driver’s seat?
  • Kateryna D Makova, Penn State University, United States
  • The ancient mutational event for Machado-Joseph disease (MJD/SCA3) is older in Japan than in Europe: what more has Asia to tell us about MJD mutational origins?
  • Jorge Sequeiros, IBMC and ICBAS, Univ Porto, Portugal
  • Mitochondrial evidence for the peopling of Australia
  • Dr Sheila M van Holst Pellekaan, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Phenotypical Characterisation of the Isolated Norfolk Island Population Focusing on Epidemiological Indicators of Cardiovascular Disease
  • Claire Bellis, Genomics Research Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Griffith University Gold Coast, Australia
  • Genetic variation of the populations of the Baltic Sea
  • Tuuli Lappalainen, Finnish Genome Center, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Published on Tuesday, 1 August 2006 by the Professional Conference Organiser