Genetics and Public Health in Post-Genomic Era

Advancing the post-genomic era agenda: contributions from public health.

As the science and practice of genomics increasingly turns attention to its role in common chronic illness prevention and treatment, contributions from public health become more visible. Integration of genomics into health care and public health is often framed by principles such as equity and utility, and the accompanying need to translate findings into interventions. This paper will discuss t...

Genetics in Genomic Era

Genetics is a relatively young science compared to many other fields in biology, for example, evolutionary biology or physiology. However, genetics is a central theme in many fields, especially the medical sciences, because genetic studies can provide explanations and may even allow predictions to be made, in the context of a range of biological problems including the field of inherited human d...

Population Genetics in the Genomic Era

Population and clinical genetics of human transposable elements in the (post) genomic era

Recent technological developments-in genomics, bioinformatics and high-throughput experimental techniques-are providing opportunities to study ongoing human transposable element (TE) activity at an unprecedented level of detail. It is now possible to characterize genome-wide collections of TE insertion sites for multiple human individuals, within and between populations, and for a variety of ti...

Crystallography in the post-genomic era

X-ray crystallography is the most powerful technique to determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins. Several steps are required to solve the structure of proteins including cloning and expression of the gene, protein purification, crystallization, X-rays diffraction, data collection and structure determination. The vast amount of data generated by genomic studies has accelerated the d...