Genetic Variation and Human Disease
Principles and Evolutionary Approaches

"...provides an overview of the concepts and methods needed to understand the genetic basis of biological traits, including disease, in humans. Using examples of qualitative and quantitative phenotypes, Professor Weiss shows how genetic variation may be quantified, and how relationships between genotype and phenotype may be inferred....will appeal to a wide range of biologists and biological anthropologists interested in the genetic basis of biological traits, as well as to epidemiologists, biomedical scientists, human geneticists and molecular biologists." Human Genome Abstracts

"...provides a comprehensive yet readable account of concepts and methods new to genetic epidemiology and molecular biology, which allows examination of the genetic basis of biological traits." N. Krusko, Choice

"...well-documented, clearly written, scholarly text...will certainly be valuable to students of genetics, epidemiology, molecular biology and biological anthropology, and to all who are interested in solving the molecular etiology of disease phenotypes and in studying the human gene pool and its behavior throughout evolution." Trends in Genetics

"...the value of the book lies in the mixing of quantitative methods of empirical findings of modern biology." Jonathan Flint, Times Higher Education Supplement

"This is a very fine and rewarding work. We find here no less than an explanation of the current status of, and a means for understanding, the rising flood of information on human genetic variability." William Klitz, Quarterly Review of Biology