Honors, Genetics 320 2007

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Times, Speakers and papers

• 29 October
  1. Richie Azar, Aaron Ho, Tim Malan, Saman Nematollahi.
     • Paper: Geographically separate increases in the frequnecy of the derived ADH1B*47His allele in Easter and Western Asia

  2. Timothy Ward, Martin Deymier, Sara Clasen, Aimee Littleton.
     • Paper: Mitchondrial genome variation and the origin of modern humans

• 5 November
  1. Deepika Laddu, Wujie Zhang, Brandon Kim, Ana Casanova, James Cahill.
     • Papers:
       1. Mutation rates in humans. I. Overall and sex-specific rates obtained from a population study of Hemophilia B.
       2. Occurance of Hemophilia in the United States

  2. Lisa Danowski, Kristin Duffy, Alice Ferng, Kyle Malhotra.
     • Paper: Were Neanderthal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift?

  3. Neeru Narla, Abhishek Kulkarni, Keith Sweeney, Quinney Fu.
     • Paper: The emergence of HIV/AIDS in the Americas and beyond.

• 12 November (NO CLASS -- Holiday)

• 19 November
  1. Adam Sakievich, Cody Witham, Gina Mason, Julia Hubler, Ian Kidder.
     • Paper: Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation

  2. Lauren Bergstrand, Melissa Genczo, Mikayla Orlowski, Megan Shuey, Gabrielle Uschak.
     • Paper: Melanocortin-1 receptor gene variants determine the risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer independently of fair skin and red hair

  3. John Putz, Ronald Tang, Matt Miller.
     • Paper: SNPs in multi-species conserved sequences (MCS) as useful markes in associaiton studies: A practial approach

• 26 November
  1. Elyse Paluscio, Aarthi Goverdhn, Donia Hussain, Nina Castro.
     • Papers:
       • The evolutionary history of the CCR5-D32 HIV resistance mutation
       • The case for selection at CCR5-Delta32

  2. Josh Turkeltaub, Brock Oxford, Jessica Jimenez, Cindy Fastje.
     • Paper: Genetic studies of a cluster of acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia cases in Churchill County, Nevada,
     • Powerpoint of presentation

  3. Zaynah Chowdhury, Imran Ghare, Omar Salim, Harron Ashraf.
     • Paper Genetic determinants of hair, eye and skin pigmentation in Europeans link to html of article