Biological Sciences and Health Lectures (Audio)

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Tribes and Diatribes: Race, Genes, and Diseases - Professor Christopher Dye

Few human deaths are caused by inherited genetic defects, and yet all diseases have a genetic basis. How do we resolve that paradox, and what have race, ethnicity and longevity got to do with it?
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