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DNA POLYMORPHISMS IN HUMAN POPULATIONS
 International Symposium - Ferrara - May 12, 2000
Università di Ferrara - Nuovi Istituti Biologici 
Via L. Borsari, 46 Ferrara

 
Invited speakers:

Antonio Amorim (University of Porto, Portugal)
Philip Awadalla (University of di Edinburgh, UK)
David Balding (University of Reading, UK)
David Comas (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Isabelle Dupanloup (University of Ferrara, Italy)
Laurent Excoffier (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Masako Kimura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Hiroki Oota (Max Plank Institut Leipzig, Germany)
Chiara Romualdi (University of Padova, Italy)
Antti Sajantila (University of Helsinki, Finland)


     In recent years, important aspects of human history and prehistory have been reconstructed through the analysis of genetic variation.  Studies of genetic diversity are also providing elements useful for a deeper understanding of the origin and evolution of many pathological traits.  Recent technical developments, in particular those that may soon permit rapid and inexpensive typing of many genes, will probably give further impulse to the study of human DNA polymorphisms.  At this stage, therefore, it seems useful to discuss the state of the art, and to compare different viewpoints.  Themes of particular interest are the possibility of recombination in the mitochondrial genome, the meaning and the implications of allele genealogies, and the best methods to estimate ages of alleles and mutation rates.

 
 

Programme:

ore 9.00 
  Welcome address: Gianni Fiorentini - Dean, Faculty of Sciences 
    First session: (discussant: Italo Barrai)
ore 9.05
  Antti Sajantila
  Mutation rate estimates in human microsatellites 
ore 9.50 
  Masako Kimura
  Polymorphism of Band 3 gene related to Malaria resistance in Southeast Asia
ore 10.15 
  David Comas
    Alu insertion polymorphisms in Northwest Africa and the Iberian Peninsula:
  evidence for a strong genetic boundary through the Gibraltar Straits
ore 11.00 
  Dr. Horst Donner
    MWG-Biotech Italia: "Techniques for SNP typing"
ore 11.10 
  Coffee break
  Second session (discussant: Laurent Excoffier)
 ore 11.40 
  David Balding
  Coalescent-based inference for genealogical trees, with application tohuman Y haplotypes
ore 12.40 
  Isabelle Dupanloup
    Inferring admixture proportion from molecular data
ore 13.05 
  Lunch
  Third session (discussant: Giorgio Bertorelle)
ore 15.00 
  Hiroki Oota
  mtDNA variation in Han Chinese
ore 15.25 
  Antonio Amorim
  Gnawing at old bones: a reassesment of autosomal diversity
ore 16.05
  Chiara Romualdi
  Genetic variances within and between major human groups 
ore 16.30 
  Coffee break
  Fourth session (discussant: Guido Barbujani)
ore 17.00 
  Philip Awadalla
  Haplotype structure within hominid mitochondrial dna data
ore 17.45 
  Laurent Excoffier
  Human past demography: Bottleneck, expansion, or both ?
ore 18.30 
  Concluding comments
 

 
 
 
Registration is free!
Where is Ferrara
Where are the Biological Institutes
Lodging in Ferrara
The population genetics group in Ferrara

 

Any question? Contact  Günther Franz Manni 

 
Università degli Studi di Ferrara
 
Dipartimento di Biologia - Sez. di Biologia Evolutiva
 
Via Luigi Borsari, 46; 44100 Ferrara
 
Tel. ++39 - 0532 - 291745
 
Fax ++39 - 0532 - 249761
 
E-mail:  mnr@dns.unife.it

 
 
 

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