KKidd

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Kenneth K. Kidd is Professor of Genetics and Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. He maintains ongoing research projects in several areas in which he has been active over the past few years: searching for genes for complex neuropsychiatric disorders, assembling the human genetic map, designing databases for diverse types of human genetic data, exploring the molecular evolution of hominoids, and studying gene frequency variation in humans.. His research most relevant to the origins and diversification of humans are (1) studies comparing inter- versus intra-species molecular variation for several hominoid species and (2) studies of gene frequency variation among human populations from all major regions of the world. The human studies are a close collaboration with Judith R. Kidd, Ph.D., Research Scientist in the Department of Genetics at Yale. In their lab samples from 38 populations from around the world are being typed for a variety of DNA-based genetic markers. The emphasis currently is on clusters of markers forming haplotypes and analysis of the patterns of disequilibrium seen. Recent papers from their lab demonstrate a strong founder effect associated with the exodus from Northeast Africa of a single modern human population that expanded and diversified to fill the rest of the world. Other studies of human variation are attempting to map quantify the demographic parameters that existed during that diversification and to identify any selection that may have existed at targetted loci, such as those involved in ethanol metabolism.

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http://www.med.yale.edu/genetics/kkidd/

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