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- Introduction
- The sources of genomic variation
- Overview
- Range of the puma (puma concolor)
- Range of homo sapiens
- Prehistoric and ancient population growth
- Phylogeny of plasmodium with hosts
- Pontine marshes
- Anopheles messeae
- Pontine marshes distant view
- Hippocrates on the health of people
- Favism
- Cause of favism: mutation in G6PD
- Mutations in G6PD: G6PD med
- G6PD- function (1)
- Distribution of G6PD deficiencies and of malaria
- G6PD- function (2)
- G6PD and malaria
- Malaria is and was a huge killer
- The sources of genomic diversity
- Point mutation (1)
- Point mutation (2)
- Point mutation (3)
- Point mutation: error rate
- The sources of genomic diversity - mutations
- Other mutations
- Consequences of large mutations
- Sources of genomic diversity - effect of mutations
- Genetic diversity across the genome
- Key fact 1: most mutations do nothing
- What mutations are functional?
- The gene: where a mutation might hit
- Translation
- Coding mutations (1)
- Coding mutations (2)
- Coding mutations: synonymous or silent mutation
- Nonsynonymous but conservative mutations
- Nonsynonymous nonconservative mutations
- Coding mutations: nonsense (mutation to stop)
- Statistics for coding - region mutations
- Coding mutations: indels (insertions or deletions)
- Where a mutation might hit: promoter
- Where a mutation might hit: introns
- Most mutations do nothing
- Most mutations do (almost) nothing
- Mutations happen, but what happens next?
- Sources of genomic diversity: neutral mutations
- The fate of a neutral mutation
- Inheritance in a pedigree
- A nuclear family
- Inheritance of genotypes
- Family inheritance as the source of genetic drift
- The frequency of the mutation does a random walk
- What we actually detect: polymorphic loci
- Fixation
- Variation across the genome
- Turning this around: similarity across the genome
- Sources of genomic diversity: deletrious mutations
- Inheritance of phenotypes (1)
- Inheritance of phenotypes (2)
- Deleterious mutations in the population
- Two types of severe genetic disorder
- Deleterious mutations
- Mildly deleterious mutations
- An outline of genomic diversity
- Beneficial mutations: new protein shapes (1)
- Beneficial mutations: new protein shapes (2)
- FOXP2
- FOXP2 in animals
- FOXP2 mutations
- The similarity and diversity of human talents
- Beneficial/deleterious mutations (1)
- Beneficial/deleterious mutations (2)
- CCR5 delta 32 (1)
- CCR5 delta 32 (2)
- CCR5 delta32 and AIDS
- Selection of delta 32
- Balancing selection
- Distribution of Hgb S
- Hgb S: balancing selection
- Geographical selection
- Sources of genomic diversity: promotor mutations
- "Adjusting selection": promoter mutations
- Effect of varying expression of proteins
- Special problems of immune response
- The HLA region on chromosome 6
- RANTES
- Successive mutations in RANTES
- RANTES and HIV
- The sources of genomic diversity: haplotypes
- Independent inheritance: Mendel's third law
- Some traits are inherited together: linkage
- The limits of linkage: recombination (1)
- The limits of linkage: recombination (2)
- Haplotypes (1)
- Haplotypes (2)
- Mapping by linkage in a family association study
- The FOXP2 mutation pedigree
- Limitations of family studies
- Population haplotypes (1)
- Population haplotypes(2)
- Haplotype blocks (1)
- Haplotype blocks(2)
- Using haplotype blocks
- Haplotypes can date mutations
- Age of G6PD mutations (1)
- Age of G6PD mutations (2)
- An afterword: natural selection and human races(1)
- An afterword: natural selection and human races(2)
- Acknowledgements
Topics Covered
- The sources of genomic diversity: DNA and mutation, effect of mutations, inheritance, selection and drift
- Environmental diversity
- Natural selection
- Human genomic diversity
- Population growth
- G6PD
- DNA and mutation: point mutations (SNPs) and more complex mutations
- The effect of mutations: insertions or deletions and large chromosomal inversions
- Translation
- Coding mutations
- The fate of mutations
- Neural mutations
- Deleterious mutations
- Radically beneficial mutations: FOXP2
- Sometimes beneficial/sometimes deleterious mutations: CCR5 delta-32 and Hgb S
- Promoter mutations
- Mutations traveling together: haplotypes
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Talk Citation
Nelson, G. (2007, October 1). The sources of genomic diversity [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 15, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/HOBT8353.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on October 1, 2007
Financial Disclosures
- Dr. George Nelson has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.