Investigating the Human Genome Insights into Human Variation and Disease Susceptibility

Leading medical genetics scholar Moyra Smith reviews current prospects and progress in medical genetics and genomics, arising from the growth of gene mapping and Human Genome sequencing. She addresses recent investigations into human origins, migrations, and diversity; psychiatric diseases; Alzheimer's, Parkinsonism, and ALS; protein misfolding; gene-environment interactions; mRNA; epigenetics, and much more

Moyra Smith is Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics at the School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine. A leading scholar in her field, she has served as an editor of McKusick's classic Red Book, Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Smith's monographs in the Oxford Series on Human Genetics include Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay: Genetic and Epigenetic Factors (2005), Translational Research in Genetics and Genomics (2008), and Phenotypic Variation: Exploration and Functional Genomics (2011).