Community Genetics in Developing Countries
Symposium, Bangalore, January 2002. Special Issue: "Community Genetics" 2002, Vol. 5, No 3. Special Topic Issue: Community Genetics 2002, Vol. 5, No. 3
Published on 11. November 2002
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For a long time, the benefits of the human genome revolution have been restricted to people of the prosperous countries of the world. This special issue of Community Genetics, however, aims to highlight the rapidly emerging impact of genetic diseases on the health of people in developing countries, where marriage often occurs within the same clan, tribe or ethnic group and where consanguineous unions are frequently preferred. As a result, communities living side by side may show very different disease profiles, and specific disorders can be found only in particular ethnic groups or castes. This publication presents the outcomes of community genetics programs in developing countries and migrant communities in articles specially commissioned from an international panel of experts. It is unique in integrating information on a wide spectrum of genetic diseases of populations living in the Near East and South-West Asia. The findings will also help to identify the health needs of the numerous migrant communities now living in Western countries. This special issue is a must not only for human, medical and clinical geneticists and genetic counsellors, but also for paediatricians, epidemiologists and public health workers. Besides, it will be of great interest to people working in community and preventive medicine, to health planners, human biologists, anthropologists as well as to medical demographers.
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Community Genetics in Developing Countries, A.H. Bittles, H.S Savithri, N. Appaji Rao; Understanding Inherited Disease through Human Migrations - A South-West Asian Perspective, K. McElreavey, L. Quintana-Murci; Castes, Migration, Immunogenetics and Infectious Diseases in South India, R.M. Pitchappan; Genetic Diversity in the Human Major Histocompatibility Complex: Lessons for Vaccination Approaches to HIV Infection, N.K. Mehra, G. Kaur, R. Jaini; FMR1 Haplotype Analysis among Indian Communities, B.K. Thelma, D. Sharma; Common Psychiatric Diseases and Human Genetic Variation, O. Mukherjee, Q. Saleem, M. Purushottam, A. Anand, S.K. Brahmachari, S. Jain; The Influence of Consanguineous Marriage on Infant and Child Mortality among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, J. Pedersen; Consanguinity and Ocular Genetic Diseases in South India: Analysis of a Five-Year Study, G. Kumaramanickavel, B. Joseph, A. Vidhya, T. Arokiasamy, N. Shridhara Shetty; Cerebral Lipidoses in Patients with Progressive Neurodegeneration: A Study from South India, R. Christopher, A. Nalini; The Burden of Genetic Disorders in India and a Framework for Community Control, I.C. Verma, S. Bijarnia; Genetic Disorders in Haematological Practice in India, D. Mohanty, R.B. Colah, A.C. Gorakshakar, A.H. Nadkarni, S.P. Phanasgaonkar, S. Shetty, K. Ghosh, M.B. Mukherjee; Intellectual Disability and Cerebral Palsy in a UK Community, P.C. Corry; Transcultural Genetic Counselling in the UK, G.A. Karbani.