J21 : Is Diabetes Favoured by Natural Selection?


Students Andy Zhang
Daniel Liu
School HWDSB - Westdale Secondary School - Hamilton
Level Senior 11/12 - Grade 11
Group Group 3 - Health Sciences II
Abstract The purpose of our study is to expand and challenge the ideas of the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis proposed by James Neel in 1962 to see if Diabetes is favoured by Natural Selection, using data from the HapMap Project.