With the detailed genomic information that is now becoming available, we havea plethora of data that allows researchers to address questions in a variety of areas. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a vital approach to identify candidate regions associated with complex diseases in human medicine, production traits in agriculture, and variation in wild populations. Genomic prediction goes a step further, attempting to predict phenotypic variation in these traits from genomic information. Genome-Wide Association Studies and Genomic Prediction pulls together expert...

While ecologists and environmentalists view the melting of the polar ice caps as a dire and threatening effect of climate change, many business and political leaders see emerging opportunity, as a result of newly accessible oil and gas fields. As the contributors to "The Secure and the Dispossessed "reveal, the ongoing environmental transitions raise a host of complicated questions about global assets and resources as well as dangerous opportunism.
"The Secure and the Dispossessed g"athers together essays by high-profile journalists, academics, and activists, including Christian Parenti,...

This Methods in Molecular Biology(TM) book covers phenotypes of interest as well as design issues for GWAS, methods for storing and handling large datasets, quality control measures, haplotype inference, and imputation and statistical approaches to data analysis.