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Cancer: a missing link in ecosystem functioning?

By Vittecoq M, Roche B, Daoust SP, Ducasse H, MissÈ D, Abadie J, et al. in Trends in ecology & evolution 2013;28(11):628-35. Open access Summary Cancer is a disease that affects the majority of metazoan species and, before directly causing host death, is...

Secular trends in new childhood epidemics: insights from evolutionary medicine

By Martin Brüne and Ze’ev Hochberg, in BMC Medicine 2013, 11:226 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-226 Open access, full article available here Abstract: In the last few decades, pediatric medicine has observed a dramatic increase in the prevalence of hitherto rare...

Windfalls and pitfalls: applications of population genetics to the search for disease genes

By Michael D. Edge, Prakash Gorroochurn, and Noah A. Rosenberg Available open access in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 1 October 2013 to 7 November 2013 Association mapping can be viewed as an application of population genetics and evolutionary biology to...

French translation of Why We Get Sick just published

Pourquoi tombons-nous malade? Auteurs : Randolph M. Nesse et George C. Williams, traduit de l’anglais par Maude Bernardet. Éditions De Boeck, octobre 2013 ISBN : 978-2804181710 Ouvrage fondateur de la médecine darwinienne, initialement paru en 1994,...

Implications of sex-specific selection for the genetic basis of disease

By Edward H. Morrow and Tim Connallon. In Evolutionary Applications 4 SEP 2013 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12097 (open access) Mutation and selection are thought to shape the underlying genetic basis of many common human diseases. However, both processes depend on the...