• Human Population Genetics: An Overview
• 20 min
  1. Modern human origins

  • Prof. Richard Klein
• 48 min
  2. History and geography of human genetic diversity I

  • Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• 40 min
  3. History and geography of human genetic diversity II

  • Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• 38 min
  4. Cultural evolution

  • Prof. Marcus Feldman
• 64 min
  5. The human genomes

  • Prof. Gil McVean
• 39 min
  6. Human population structure

  • Prof. Noah Rosenberg
• 49 min
  7. The signature of local adaptations in human polymorphism data

  • Dr. Anna Di Rienzo
• The Human Genome Project
• 46 min
  8. The HapMap project

  • Prof. Andrew Clark
• 28 min
  9. Major gene families in humans and their evolutionary history

  • Prof. Yoshihito Niimura
• 41 min
  10. Evolution of human mitochondrial DNA variations

  • Prof. Toomas Kivisild
• 51 min
  11. Ethical issues in human population genetics

  • Prof. Henry Greely
• Important Phenotypic Phenomena
• 66 min
  12. Evolution: how genes and their variation got here

  • Prof. Kenneth Weiss
• 45 min
  13. The genetic component to diabetes

  • Dr. Nancy Cox
• 56 min
  14. Genetics of breast and ovarian cancer

  • Prof. Jeffrey Weitzel
• 53 min
  15. Colorectal cancer and the rare variant hypothesis

  • Prof. Sir Walter Bodmer
• 37 min
  16. Genetic diseases in the Jewish population

  • Prof. Neil Risch
• 48 min
  17. The genetics of French Canadians

  • Dr. Bernard Brais
  • Dr. Bertrand Desjardins
  • Prof. Damian Labuda
  • Dr. Marc St-Hilaire
  • Prof. Marc Tremblay
  • Prof. Helene Vezina
• Historical and Geographical Genetic Variation
• 33 min
  18. Human genetic variation of Africa

  • Prof. Joanna Mountain
• 37 min
  19. Genetics of Pakistani populations in an Asian and global context

  • Prof. S. Qasim Mehdi
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 32 min
  20. The genetics of breast and ovarian cancer

  • Dr. Piri Welcsh
• 37 min
  21. Historical and geographical genetic variation: Europe

  • Prof. Antonio Torroni
• 40 min
  22. Linguistic evolution

  • Dr. Merritt Ruhlen
• 37 min
  23. Human microsatellite and minisatellite DNA polymorphisms

  • Dr. James Weber
• 41 min
  24. Human population genetics: lifespan

  • Prof. Kaare Christensen
• 24 min
  25. History and geography of human genetic diversity III

  • Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• 33 min
  26. Major gene families in humans and their evolutionary history

  • Prof. Yoshihito Niimura
  • Prof. Masatoshi Nei
• 34 min
  27. Natural selection and sequence polymorphism

  • Prof. Austin Hughes
• 32 min
  28. Human Y chromosome phylogenetics and phylogeography

  • Prof. Peter Underhill
• 63 min
  29. The peopling of the Americas: new insights from genetic studies

  • Dr. Theodore Schurr

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1. Introduction
2. Questions about genetic variation
3. How different are our genomes?
4. Serological techniques for detecting variation
5. Blood group systems in humans
6. Extreme levels of variation at HLA genes
7. Protein electroporesis
8. The rise of DNA sequence analysis
9. The human genomes...
10. The international HapMap project
11. How do we differ? let me count the ways
12. Y chromosome variation
13. Mutation is the ultimate source of variation
14. Understanding genetic variation
15. Different, but not that different
16. An aside on the genetics of race
17. Genetic variation distribution in genomes
18. Diversity isn't evenly distributed in genome (1)
19. Diversity isn't evenly distributed in genome (2)
20. Diversity isn't evenly distributed in genome (3)
21. Diversity isn't evenly distributed in genes (1)
22. Diversity isn't evenly distributed in genes (2)
23. Diversity isn't evenly distributed in genes (3)
24. Diversity isn't evenly distributed in populations (1)
25. mtDNA phylogeography
26. The colonization process: from mtDNA variation
27. The colonization process: from gut bacteria
28. Diversity isn't evenly distributed in populations (2)
29. Genetic variation: an indicator for human evolution
30. The appearance of fossil archaic forms of hominids
31. Did early humans interbreed with meanderthals
32. Haplotypes in Europeans versus non-Europeans
33. A model of human history
34. Deeper trees in the human genome
35. Highly structured ancestral populations
36. The footprints of adaptive evolution
37. Detecting recent adaptive evolution
38. Long haplotypes
39. Strong population differentiation
40. The results of the two analyses
41. Major changes in gene sequence
42. Classes of selected genes
43. Summary

Topics Covered

• The nature of genetic polymorphism
• Single nucleotide polymorphisms
• Differences between genomic regions
• Differences between populations
• Inferences about human history from genetic variation
• Detecting natural selection

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Series:

• Human Population Genetics I

Categories:

• Genetics & Epigenetics

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Gil McVean has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.