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An EMBO workshop entitled ‘Human Evolution and Disease’ was held recently (6–9 December 2006, Hyderabad, India) where 141 scientists from many disciplines came together to discuss recent studies of human variation, origins and dispersal, natural selection and disease susceptibility. The meeting tackled the subject of human evolution and disease from the different perspectives of archaeology, linguistics, genetics and genomics based on both new and publicly available data sets. In this report, we highlight the latest fashion crazes in the discipline, in particular, the use of large public data sets and new methods to analyse modern human variation and the links between human evolution and disease susceptibility.
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I thank Chris Tyler-Smith for his helpful comments and The Wellcome Trust for the funding enabling me to attend the workshop. The main sponsors of the workshop were EMBO and CCMB. Additionally, the hosts from CCMB did a great job taking care of the visitors.
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Yngvadottir, B. Insights into modern disease from our distant evolutionary past. Eur J Hum Genet 15, 603–606 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201811
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