Human Genetic Variation and Common Disease: A Short-Term Approach for Improving Human Health |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, October 06, 2004, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Wednesday Afternoon Lectures |
| Description: | Common human diseases such, as cardiovascular disease and psychiatric illness, are caused by a combination of multiple genetic and environmental factors. The bounded nature of the human genome, and the availability of the complete human genome sequence, have resulted in extensive efforts to define the genetic basis of a wide variety of complex human traits. One approach for identifying such genetic risk factors is the case-control association study, in which a group of individuals with disease is found to have an increased frequency of a particular genetic variant compared to a group of control individuals. We have identified a number of genetic risk factors by using such association studies.
For more information, visit http://www.chimolecularmed.com/speakers/cox.asp NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series |
| Author: | David R. Cox, M.D., Ph.D., Perlagen Sciences, Inc. |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Rights: | This is a work of the United States Government. No copyright exists on this material. It may be disseminated freely. |
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| CIT File ID: | 12219 |
| CIT Live ID: | 3426 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?12219 |