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 12 - Health Science IV |
| 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. |