I'm looking for a good book that can give me a decent overview of genetics and related fields in the hopes that I can following along with some of the Nobel Intent articles. Sort of a "brief history ...

Basic concepts in quantitative genetics, including Mendelian genetics, gene action (additive, dominant, recessive), heritability, liability threshold model, means, variances, structure of DNA, types ...

Basic concepts in population genetics, including nucleotide diversity, random genetic drift, effective population size, coalescent theory, time to common ancestor, site frequency spectrum, linkage ...

No field of science has changed more, or changed the world more, in the last 50 years than genetics – the study of how our physical and behavioural traits are inherited. These experiments illuminated ...