The Landscape of Genetic Variants in Asian Founder Populations 2017 covers topics such as:
- Population movements in Asia and the emergence of Asian founder populations
- Clinical genetics in Asian populations: pediatric and chronic diseases, prenatal and multifactorial high prevalence diseases with a "small" genetic component
- Efforts to implement personalized medicine in Asian medical systems
- Attitudes towards identifying, testing and editing genetic, disease causing, variants in Asian populations
- Lessons from the Jewish Genome: Jews and "Jewish mutations" in India and Asia, Jewish ethical perspective and its influence
- Genetics and genomics in the next generation sequencing era: challenges in scientific, clinical and laboratory service provisions
The Landscape of Genetic Variants in Asian Founder Populations 2017 brings together medical genetics and leading international experts on genetics of Asian populations.