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CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - David Haig: The Divided Child

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - David Haig: The Divided Child

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) · UCTV: UC San Diego

January 23, 201724m 50s

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Show Notes

"My mother's kin are not my father's kin."  David Haig (Harvard Univ) explains in this talk that this asymmetry results in conflicting selective forces acting on genes of maternal and paternal origin revealed in the phenomenon of genomic imprinting.  He provides several examples of disorders of imprinted gene expression. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 31602]

Topics

David HaigCARTAgenomic imprintingGenetics31602