Special Issue in Honor of the 80th Anniversary of Human Biology: The Gabriel W. Lasker Award Winners, 1992-2008

Nutrition and the Variation in Level and Age Patterns of Mortality
Timothy B. Gage and Kathleen O'Connor

Update to Gage and O’Connor’s “Nutrition and the Variation in Level and Age Patterns of Mortality” (1994)
Timothy B. Gage and Kathleen O'Connor

Multivariate Quantitative Genetics of Anthropometric Traits from the Boas Data
Lyle W. Konigsberg and Stephen D. Ousley

Update to Konigsberg and Ousley’s “Multivariate Quantitative Genetics of Anthropometric Traits from the Boas Data” (1995)
Lyle W. Konigsberg and Stephen D. Ousley

Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Lactose Digestion in Adults
Clare Holden and Ruth Mace

Update to Holden and Mace’s “Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Lactose Digestion in Adults” (1997): Revisiting the Coevolution of Human Cultural and Biological Diversity
Ruth Mace

Clinal Variation in the Nuclear DNA of Europeans
Lounès Chikhi, Giovanni Destro-Bisol, Vincenzo Pascali, Vanessa Baravelli, Marina Dobosz, and Guido Barbujani

Update to Chikhi et al.’s “Clinal Variation in the Nuclear DNA of Europeans” (1998): Genetic Data and Storytelling—From Archaeogenetics to Astrologenetics?
Lounès Chikhi

One Founder/One Gene Hypothesis in a New Expanding Population: Saguenay (Quebec, Canada)
E Heyer

Update to Heyer’s “One Founder/One Gene Hypothesis in a New Expanding Population” (1999)
Evelyne Heyer and Frederic Austerlitz

Gene Mapping in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Statistical Methods, Data Analysis, and Experimental Design
Joseph D. Terwilliger and Harald H. H. Göring

Update to Terwilliger and Göring’s “Gene Mapping in the 20th and 21st Centuries” (2000): Gene Mapping When Rare Variants Are Common and Common Variants Are Rare
Joseph D. Terwilliger and Harald H. H. Göring

Effects of Ascertainment Bias on Recovering Human Demographic History
Elise Eller

Birth-Weight-Specific Infant and Neonatal Mortality: Effects of Heterogeneity in the Birth Cohort
Timothy B. Gage

Update to Gage’s “Birth-Weight-Specific Infant and Neonatal Mortality” (2002)
Timothy B. Gage

Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races
Jeffrey C. Long and Rick A. Kittles

Update to Long and Kittles’s “Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races” (2003): Fixation on an Index
Jeffrey C. Long

Local Extinction and Recolonization, Species Effective Population Size, and Modern Human Origins
Elise Eller, John Hawks, and John H. Relethford

Update to Eller et al.’s “Local Extinction and Recolonization, Species Effective Population Size, and Modern Human Origins” (2004)
John Hawks

Quantitative Trait Nucleotide Analysis Using Bayesian Model Selection
John Blangero; Harald H.H. Göring; Jack W. Kent, Jr.; and Jeff T. Williams

Update to Blangero et al.’s “Quantitative Trait Nucleotide Analysis Using Bayesian Model Selection” (2005): From QTL Localization to Functional Variant Identification
John Blangero

The F7 Gene and Clotting Factor VII Levels: Dissection of a Human Quantitative Trait Locus
José Manuel Soria, Laura Almasy, Juan Carlos Souto, and Maria Sabater-Lleal

Update to Soria et al.’s “F7 Gene and Clotting Factor VII Levels” (2005): Genetic Determinants of Quantitative Traits in Thrombotic Disease
Itziar Arbesú and José Manuel Soria