Human Population Genetics

The course on “Human Population Genetics” is a Discipline Specific Elective Course in Anthropology at undergraduate (UG) level under the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) of UGC having 4 credits. This is an introductory course designed primarily for students in the undergraduate or master’s programs interested in biomedical research, genetic counselling, medicine, and clinical genetics. This course is expected introduce the rapid advancements in our understanding the role of human population genetics in health and disease. The course is specially designed to supplement and enhance the understanding of students about different dimensions of human population genetics starting from Mendals laws to genetic polymorphism, mutations in genes to linkage, to evolutionary genetics to evolution of humans, The MOOC content will also shed light on the Population genetics and disease association, genetic markers in forensic science, Hardy Weinberg law, Multiple Allelism, codominance, Epistasis, migration, selection, genetic variance and Human ape comparisons This MOOC is designed to help you to learn about the fundamental bases of population and evolutionary genetics, understanding of the demographic history of our species, including how modern human populations have dispersed around the globe, how population sizes have changed over time and the extent to which they have admixed. This will provide you a basic knowledge on population genetics, the study of human migrations and human adaptation to extreme conditions. Further you will be able to discover the genetic diversity of our species, its causes and consequences, to identify how humans have adapted to the great diversity of environments and the importance of the Neanderthal genome in our genetic heritage.This MOOC is aimed at anyone who wishes to learn more about Population genetics and human evolution. It is of particular interest for students working in the field of biomedical sciences, genomics, anthropology, genetics, Zoology, Biotechnology, Evolutionary Biology etc. Once this course, is completed by a student he/she will be equipped with basic and classical knowledge of human population genetics, classical and advanced genetics and will be able to take up any advanced post graduate programmes based on genetics such as medical genetics, developmental and behavioural genetics, bioinformatics, environmental genetics, genomics etc.