International Conference on Founder Populations and their contribution to our understanding of Biology and History - Lessons from the Jewish Genome 2016

The International Conference on Founder Populations and their contribution to our understanding of Biology and History - Lessons from the Jewish Genome 2016 is a conference dedicated to contribution made by studying one of the most significant founder populations in the world, the Jewish community, and how this has promoted knowledge of disease biology and specific genetic pathways.

Topics

• The study of genetics
• Founder populations
• Genetics and history
• Population genomics
• Genaeology
• Identifying individual genomic origin
• Cancer syndromes
• Founder findings in non-cancer syndromes
• Genetic screening
• Cancer genetics
• Personalizing medicine and large scale genetic testing