# Tribes and Diatribes: race, genes, and diseases

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Christopher Dye
- Year: 2008
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/tribes-and-diatribes-race-genes-and-diseases)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Few human deaths are caused by inherited genetic defects, and yet all diseases have a genetic basis. How do we resolve that paradox, and what have race, ethnicity and longevity got to do with it?

## Lectures

1. [Tribes and Diatribes: race, genes, and diseases](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/tribes-and-diatribes-race-genes-and-diseases/9539d98f1705) (YouTube)