Why and how to make our genetic history?

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Why and how to make our genetic history? That of populations as well as that of individuals? Why are we both similar and all different? How can we better understand human diversity?

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How genetics and genomics can enlighten us, not only on our origins and our demographic history, on the movements of populations, migrations and interbreedings which constitute us, but also on our capacity to adapt to environmental changes, as to diseases infectious and pathogenic agents? 20 years after the 1st sequencing of the human genome, epigenetics, the way in which our genes are expressed or not according to our environment, opens up a new field of research and questions on our tremendous human diversity.

With Lluis Quintana-Murci, biologist, scientific director of the Institut Pasteur for his appointment to the Collège de France (Human genomics and evolution Chair)

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