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Anthropology and Human Genetics

Characteristics of the discipline

The discipline is focused on physical antropology and human biology, genetics, ecology and ethology. It deals predominantly with ontogenetic and phylogenetic development of man, morphological variability and evolution of populations, ethnic anthropology and ethnology, human growth and its disorders, body composition and nutrition, action of environmental and social factors on man, human behavior and with characteristics at various levels of biologic organization and their heredity. Molecular genetics includes analyses of different human receptor genes and genetic polymorphisms in variable regions of human chromosomes. Applied specialities include forensic, functional, clinical and industrial anthropology. Special position occupies skeletal and dental anthropology.

Lectures and courses

Auxology (Šmahel)
Human Genetics (Mazura)
Human Ecology člověka (Šmahel)
Human Ethology člověka (Blažek)
Dental Anthropology (Trefný)
Introduction into Paleopathology (Smrčka)
Clinical Anthropology (Zemková)
Forensic Anthropology (Mazura, Vacková)
Molecular Pathology of the Man (Mazura)
Biomechanics (Mařík)
Human Endocrinology (Bendlová)
Human Embryology and Teratology (Peterka)
Statistical methods in Anthropology (Zvárová)
Genomic and Diagnostic Techniques (Škvor)
Physiology of Nutrition and Biological Rhytms in Man (Petrásek)
Genetics of Oncogenesis and Imunological Reply (Ottová, Panczak)
Forensic Genetics (Šimková, Mazura)
Biomedical technologies (Škvor)
Basics of Proteomics (Škvor)
Clinical Auxology (Sedlak)
3D morphometric methods (Velemínská)

The research activities

The research is aimed at human postnatal growth and development, endocrinological growth disorders, obesity and nutrition and their consequences, craniofacial growth normal and abnormal, postoperative palatal morphology and dental anomalies in patients with orofacial clefts, dermatoglyphic characteristics in relation to developmental impairement, development of software for the use in functional and clinical antropology and at application of 3D methods of measurements as well as geometric morphometry in research. In the field of skeletal antropology the influence of living conditions on somatic development and healthy status of former populations are studied and methods of molecular genetics are used for identification of persons and determination of gender and personal relationships of skeletons. Studies dealing with molecular genetics include of following projects: genetics of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus type II, collagen impairement in locomotory diseases, genetics of obesity, variable tandem repeats in man, origin and ways of migrations of European populations.

Subject-area Board

The subject-area board is available in Czech (Oborová rada). The Chairman is highlighted.

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