Genetics, epigenetics and disease - Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize Lecture
Lecture - United Kingdom
Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize Lecture given by Professor Adrian Bird CBE FMedSci FRS, the Buchanan Chair of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh.
The human genome sequence has been available for more than a decade, but its significance is still not fully understood. While most human genes have been identified, there is much to learn about the DNA signals that control them. This lecture will describe an unusually short DNA sequence, just two base pairs long, CG, which occurs in several chemically different forms. Defects in signalling by CG are implicated in disease. For example, the autism spectrum disorder Rett syndrome is caused by loss of a protein that reads methylated CG and affects the activity of genes.
The Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize Lecture is awarded for original contributions to medical and veterinary sciences published within ten years from the date of the award."
(Courtesy of the Royal Society. From Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
Genetics, epigenetics and disease - Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize Lecture
Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:30 PM
The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom
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