Genetics of Cellular, Individual, Family, and Population Variability

1. Medieval mappaemundi and the conceptual map of genetics: Changing views of cancer biology and other thoughts ; 2. Impact of genetic, somatic, and epigenetic variation on phenotype ; 3. Impact of genetic variation in individuals - clonal phenotypes other than cancer ; 4. Human consanguinity effects revisited: Why is the measurable impact of inbreeding so small? ; 5. Genetic risks from exposure to the atomic bombs: Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; 6. Genotype by environment interaction - It's a fact of life ; 7. Problems and pitfalls in linkage mapping of human genetic diseases: Illustrations from autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP) ; 8. Applications of pedigree analysis to animal models for complex diseases ; 9. Genetics of common diseases that aggregate, but do not segregate, in families ; 10. Pathodemes: Heredity, environment, and populations of disease susceptibility ; 11. Genetic inferences from epidemiologic investigations ; 12. Generalized occupancy problem and its applications in population genetics ; 13. The maintenance of genetic variation in bacterial populations ; 14. Some theoretical predictions for electrophoretic polymorphisms maintained by balancing selection ; 15. Application of our understanding of genetic variation in native North America ; 16. Genetic variation and evolution of human populations ; 17. Nucleotide diversity in man and evidence for the absence of a severe bottleneck during human evolution ; 18. Population genetics and evolution in the genus homo in the last two million years