Trends in Population Genetics and Identification—Impact on Anthropology

Dear Colleagues，

The recent advances in genotyping technologies and data analyses have brought significant advances in our understanding of human origins and evolution and provided extremely powerful approaches in the forensic and medical fields, reshaping entirely our anthropological perspectives.

Although these advances are still far from being fully exploited, we feel it is nevertheless timely and useful to organize a Special Issue on this topic, allowing the scientific community to review, reflect and problematize the related questions – those that are already on sight as well as those we might envisage to be faced with in the future.

We expect to receive contributions on – but not limited to - the topics of (1) evolution, (2) intra and interpopulation human genetic diversity in health and disease, (3) individual identification and population assignment, (4) genome and phenome, and, of course, (5) ethical and legal implications.

We do hope that this Special Issue will provide a space for reviews and original contributions on this exciting, revived interface between genetics and anthropology which will attract the interest of research community and the readers of this journal.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Amorim
Dr. Veronica Gomes
Dr. Luisa Azevedo
Guest Editors

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