The
Centre for Genetic Anthropology
Departments
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TCGA
was established in September 1996 to pursue research on the evolution
and migrations of human populations in north Africa, east Africa,
the Near East, Asia and Europe. Research is undertaken on modern
populations and, by the analysis of ancient DNA, their precursors.
The Centre uses some of the latest advances in molecular genetics
to study questions in human history and pre-history that cannot
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Present MembersDr Rosemary Ekong (Senior Research Fellow/ Research Manager) Mr Chris Plaster (Lab technician / PhD student)
Dr Ayele Tarekegn (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) Ms Sarah
Browning (PhD student) Professor
Levon Yepiskoposyan (Academic Visitor) Prof.
Vivian Moses (Emeritus Director)
Former Members Dr
Mike Weale (King's College London) |
Research themesThe human genome
contains an enormous amount of information on the movements and relationships
of past populations and on the biological adaptations of those populations
to a changing environment. Non-recombining genetic systems, principally
the mitochondrial genome and the Y-chromosome, contain detailed information
on female and male specific genealogies respectively. Using modern
molecular techniques this information can be accessed with increasing
speed and in recent years it has been used to address a range of historical
and demographic questions. Currently, the relationships between and
among populations from Africa, Europe, Asia and The Middle East, with
a particular focus on Jewish and Judaic groups, are being investigated
using both ancient and modern DNA as source material. Research is
also being carried out into the relationship between historical and
pre-historical food production and variation in genes coding for both
detoxification and nutrient utilisation enzymes in human populations. |
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Tel: ++44 (0) 207 679 5037/5061 |
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Fax: ++44 (0) 207 679 5052 |
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The Centre for Genetic Anthropology Research Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment Wolfson House 4 Stephenson Way London, NW1 2HE
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