Human genetic diversity : functional consequences for health and disease /
Julian C. Knight.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- xix, 480 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
1. Lessons From Haemoglobin ; 2. Finding Genes and Specific Genetic Variants Responsible for Disease ; 3. Cytogenetics and Large Scale Structural Genomic Variation ; 4. Submicroscopic Structural Variation in Health and Susceptibility to Disease ; 5. Submicroscopic Structural Variation and Genomic Disorders ; 6. Segmental Duplications and Indel Polymorphisms ; 7. Tandem Repeats ; 8. Mobile DNA Elements ; 9. SNPs, HapMap and Common Disease ; 10. Fine Scale Sequence Diversity and Signatures of Selection ; 11. Genetics of Gene Expression ; 12. Extreme Diversity in the Major Histocompatibility Complex ; 13. Parasite Wars ; 14. Human Genetic Diversity and HIV: Lessons From a War Fought on Many Fronts ; 15. Concluding Remarks and Future Directions