A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics

Proceedings of the 2001 Galton Institute conference.

Main contents

Part 1. The First Fifty Years of Mendelism

1. The Introduction of Mendelism into Human Genetics
Milo Keynes

2. Galton's Theory of Ancestral Inheritance
Michael Bulmer

3. The Reception of Mendelism by the Biometricians and the Early Mendelians
Eileen Magnello

4. Mendelism and Man 1918-1939
A.W.F. Edwards

5. The Darwin Lecture: William Bateson, Archibald Garrod and the Nature of the 'Inborn'
Patrick Bateson

Part 2. Human Genetics from 1950

6. Linkage and Allelic Association
Newton E. Morton

7. Malaria and Darwinian Selection in Human Populations
Lucio Luzzatto

8. Chromosomal Genetics and Evolution
Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith

9. Mendelian Disorders in Man: The Development of Human Genetics
Timothy M. Cox

10. The Genetics of Complex Diseases
John Bell

11. Human Cancer Genetics
Alfred G. Knudson

12. Genetics and the Future of Medicine
D.J. Weatherall

Appendix: Problems of Heredity as a Subject for Horticultural Investigation.
William Bateson

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