Sir Walter F. Bodmer: from R.A. Fisher to genomics
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
00:00
Genetic Relationships - The Evolution of Human Populations
In fisher's day, you hardly could look even at protein variants. And and now, and suddenly, with the diane revolution, came the possibility of looking at an almost infinite number ot fom th,. not infinite, nothing can be infinite, but millions of variants. So you can get much deeper information about relationships. When you go to enough depth, it's extraordinary how much you can find out more about those sorts of relationshipso i think that's the real major change that happend. Not as much has been done, in my view, to be careful about how you sample the populations you studybecaut. A lot of the studies are there to look for genetic relationships with disease
Transcript
Play full episode
