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Genetic Diversity in Humans

Geneticist Steve Jones on the history of genetics, protein diversity, and why every person is truly unique

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Mutations in Humans

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the ways to understand the functions of all human genes, Cyclopia or holoprosencephaly and what is physical beauty

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Genes and Sunlight

Geneticist Steve Jones on skin cancer, the effect of vitamin D and why the sunlight is good for health and dangerous at the same time

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Genome Annotation

Bioinformatician Tim Hubbard on the process of identifying genes, protein genes and RNA genes, and how many genes are there in the human genome

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Genes and the Environment

Geneticist Steve Jones on the nature-nurture controversy, genetics of obesity and how can you solve genetic promlems by changing the environment

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Genome Medicine

Bioinformatician Tim Hubbard on the ‘100,000 Genomes Project’, how to use genome data in diagnostics and treatment and what challenges the genome medicine is facing

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Educational Achievement and Intelligence

Behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin on explaining genetic variance in intelligence, the Finnish educational model, and the probabilistic approach to genetic differences in children's abilities to learn

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Genetics and Education

Neuroscientist Michael Thomas on the heritability of intelligence, the predictive power of the DNA, and a reductionist explanation of children's educational outcomes

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Biomarkers of Aging

Biologist Tim Spector on the different ways of assessing biological age, twin studies, and the microbiome

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Metabolic Phenotyping in Health and Disease

Biochemist Ian Wilson on the interaction between genotype and phenotype, prediction of metabolic disease, and the analysis of the metabolites