The Landscape of Genetic Variants in Asian Founder Populations 2017

Topics

• 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

Who should Attend

Medical genetics and leading international experts on genetics of Asian populations.