Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XX

The aim of this historical review is to evaluate the evolution of genetics in the context of Latin American scientific culture, to value foreign influences and to highlight the discoveries and contributions of Latin American geneticists. During the first third of the twentieth century, local natural...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Cruz-Coke M,Ricardo
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 1999
Materias:	Education, medical Genetics Genetics, medical History of medicine, XXth Cent
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98871999001200016
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:scielo:S0034-98871999001200016
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988719990012000162000-04-05Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XXCruz-Coke M,Ricardo Education, medical Genetics Genetics, medical History of medicine, XXth Cent The aim of this historical review is to evaluate the evolution of genetics in the context of Latin American scientific culture, to value foreign influences and to highlight the discoveries and contributions of Latin American geneticists. During the first third of the twentieth century, local naturalists, botanists and physicians understood the chromosomal theory of heredity and Mendelian theory of evolution and begun research and teaching on these new theories and technologies. During the thirties and forties, North American geneticists visited South America and formed development poles on cytogenetics and population genetics in Brazil and Argentina. During the fifties and sixties, human genetics was formally established in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Genetics teaching became generalized in universities and national Genetics Societies were formed. In 1969, the Latin American Genetics Society was created, unifying the efforts of zoologists, botanists, physicians and anthropologists in an unique Latin American cultural space, organizing 11 meetings between 1972 and 1994. Latin Americans have made a great contribution in genome discovery of animal, vegetable and human species in their territory. They explored the great genetic diversity of the continent, discovering new genes and diseases. The biomedical area had the greatest development. In 1997, there were 130 medical genetics centers, 120 hospitals specialized in congenital malformations, 56 molecular biology centers and 26 molecular genetics centers. At the end of the twentieth century, human genetics is completely integrated to medical sciences in Latin America.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.127 n.12 19991999-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98871999001200016es10.4067/S0034-98871999001200016
institution	Scielo Chile
collection	Scielo Chile
language	Spanish / Castilian
topic	Education, medical Genetics Genetics, medical History of medicine, XXth Cent
spellingShingle	Education, medical Genetics Genetics, medical History of medicine, XXth Cent Cruz-Coke M,Ricardo Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XX
description	The aim of this historical review is to evaluate the evolution of genetics in the context of Latin American scientific culture, to value foreign influences and to highlight the discoveries and contributions of Latin American geneticists. During the first third of the twentieth century, local naturalists, botanists and physicians understood the chromosomal theory of heredity and Mendelian theory of evolution and begun research and teaching on these new theories and technologies. During the thirties and forties, North American geneticists visited South America and formed development poles on cytogenetics and population genetics in Brazil and Argentina. During the fifties and sixties, human genetics was formally established in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Genetics teaching became generalized in universities and national Genetics Societies were formed. In 1969, the Latin American Genetics Society was created, unifying the efforts of zoologists, botanists, physicians and anthropologists in an unique Latin American cultural space, organizing 11 meetings between 1972 and 1994. Latin Americans have made a great contribution in genome discovery of animal, vegetable and human species in their territory. They explored the great genetic diversity of the continent, discovering new genes and diseases. The biomedical area had the greatest development. In 1997, there were 130 medical genetics centers, 120 hospitals specialized in congenital malformations, 56 molecular biology centers and 26 molecular genetics centers. At the end of the twentieth century, human genetics is completely integrated to medical sciences in Latin America.
author	Cruz-Coke M,Ricardo
author_facet	Cruz-Coke M,Ricardo
author_sort	Cruz-Coke M,Ricardo
title	Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XX
title_short	Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XX
title_full	Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XX
title_fullStr	Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XX
title_full_unstemmed	Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XX
title_sort	historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo xx
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	1999
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98871999001200016
work_keys_str_mv	AT cruzcokemricardo historiadelageneticalatinoamericanaenelsigloxx
_version_	1718435896941871104

Historia de la genética latinoamericana en el siglo XX

Ejemplares similares