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Evolutionary medicine
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Causes of disease can be viewed in two ways
1. ProximateProximate - what and howphysiological processes are involved in causing the disease and its symptoms2. Evolutionary (ultimate) - why is a disease producing these effects
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Medicine
• diagnosis and treatment of disease• addresses the what and how questions
what is causing the disease?how does the disease agent make you sick?what treatment will alleviate symptoms or heal you?
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Evolutionary Medicine
• addresses the why questions Why is this disease agent causing this symptom rather than other symptoms?Why do injuries hurt?Why do animals senesce?Why do diseases exist at all?
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Evolutionary medicine can improve treatment decisions
• Answers to why questions can help us understand the functional significance of symptoms
• Then more appropriate medical intervention can be made
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Four categories of evolutionary explanations of disease
1. DefensesDefenses2. InfectionInfection3. Old genes in new environments 4. Design compromisesDesign compromises
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1. DefensesDefenses - often confused with other aspects of disease
• fever• diarrhea• morning sickness
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Fever is an example of a symptom that can be a defense against pathogens
• elevated body temperate works to reduce the number of pathogens
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Fever
• When infected with bacteria, desert iguanas choose places that are about ~2oC warmer than their normal preferred temperature
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What effect does fever reduction have on infection?
• 68 children infected with chicken pox• acetomeniphen or placebo for 4 days• placebo treated children recovered 1
day earlier
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An odd example
1917 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg raised recovery rate for syphilis from 1% to 30% by a novel treatment
malaria
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Fevercan be an adaptive response to
infection
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Diarrhea
can be a defense against toxinsWhat happens when you take a
drug to stop the diarrhea?
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Diarrhea
• 25 volunteers had Shigellainfection with diarrhea
• half were treated to reduce diarrhea
• half were given a placebo
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• the half receiving the placebo (not treated) were feverish and ill half as long as those receiving drugs
= treatment prolonged the infection
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Is morning sickness really a sickness,
• or a way to protect the fetus and mother from toxins or pathogens?
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Nausea and vomiting peak 8-12th weeks. This is when fetus is most sensitive to chemical disturbance.
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• 7 studies show lower rates of miscarriage with NVP
• higher severity of NVP associate with lower rate of miscarriage
absence of NVPNVP
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evolutionary perspective leads to questions….
• Do other mammals have it?Dogs, Rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees
• Do women in different cultures show different levels of sickness?Yes, and it is correlated with how much meat is in diet
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Next category of evolutionary explanations of disease
2. InfectionInfection - the arms race between pathogens (bacteria and viruses)and our immune systems
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Evolutionary Epidemiology
• how do disease characteristics change as hosts and parasites evolve in response to each other and their environments
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In the arms race, on the evolutionary battlefield, between pathogens and us,
• microbes have a huge evolutionary advantage due to their short generation time
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The number of generations microbes have in the span of one human generation boggles the mind.
So, the odds are against humans in an evolutionary race
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Which pathogens will be the most successful over
evolutionary time?
• those that leave the most successful offspring
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What is the relationship between virulence and
success?
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VIRULENCE
“decrease in host fitness by a pathogen”
• our assumption: increased virulence associated with pathogen doing more damage – or –
using host quickly
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Death of the host can be good, irrelevant or bad for the parasite, depending on the details.
When is it better to be more virulentand when is it better to less virulent?
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High virulence makes a host very sick.
How can diseases be transmitted by pathogens in a very sick host?
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host activity is not necessary for disease transmission.
•When pathogen transmitted by water supply or by caretakers
• When pathogen transmitted by arthropods
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example: malaria
host doesn’t need to move and a very sick host maybe easier for
mosquitoes to exploit
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Lower virulence results in a more active host
Active hosts can spread disease by direct contact
example? a cold - a walking host spreads the
pathogens around
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evolutionary determinants of virulence
HIGH LOW
mode oftransmission
does notdepend onactive host
activehostrequired
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A second factor that can affect virulence is transmission rates
High transmission rate = few contacts and short times required
for successful transmission
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What happens if transmission rates can be cut?
• favor strains that keep host viable longer to increase chance of
successful transmission= reduced virulence
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Prediction: use of clean needles and condoms will favor the
evolution of reduced virulence of HIV
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evolutionary determinants of virulence
HIGH LOW
mode oftransmission
does notdepend onactive host
activehostrequired
rates oftransmission
few contactsnecessary
manycontactsnecessary
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Four categories of evolutionary explanations of disease
3. Old genes in novel environments -recent changes in our environments,
cause expression of previously unusualgenotype x environment interactions
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Our genes were molded by an environment that no longer exists
• The first hominid lived ~ 6 million years ago.
• Agriculture-dominated civilization began about 15,000 years ago
• Industrial revolution occurred about 100 years ago
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Individuals have genotypes and phenotypes
• organisms with the same genotypes can look different
• same genes work differently in different environments
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Carnivore Vegetarian
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Which is more similar to the human digestive tract?
Actually falls betweenfrugivore and carnivore
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‘Recommended’ Diet vs.Paleolithic Diet
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Compare again
• Protein• Sucrose• Fat• Fiber• Sodium
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Paleolithic diet
High in LEAN meat from game– omega-3 fatty acid and provide iron, zinc,
and vitamin B12– saturated fat is still bad
High in fiber from wild plant foods– no sign of cavities - brushed with dietary
fiber– lack of fiber in diet of growing children
promotes crooked teeth
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Earth cannot support 6 billion hunter-gatherers
BUT - Evolutionary perspective –new directions for investigation long term solutions
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myopia (nearsightedness) is a myopia (nearsightedness) is a genetic diseasegenetic disease
25% of Americans have myopia
How could the hunter-gatherers from which we evolved have
survived with such a bad gene?
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native Americans in the Arctic had low rates of myopia until ….
contact with Europeans
led to children going to school ...which resulted in 25% myopia
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how do eyes work and grow? cornea and lens must focus image exactly on the retina
and do this while the eye is growing…..
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how does an eye stay in focus as it grows?
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research results
• an eye with an unfocused image view grows in length
• as the eye grows, corrections are made based on the quality of the image seen
• and growth stops when image is in focus
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what an elegant mechanism
….except in the 25% of us that have the ‘myopia gene’
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myopia
proximate explanation
myopia is caused by excessive growth of the eye
excessive growth is caused by genes
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gene x novel environment
• only recently have humans had to process such finely detailed images at such young ages
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myopia evolutionary explanation
a genetically determined mechanism regulates continued focus in growing
eyes
some genetic variations cause excess growth when the eyes are used in frequent, close work when growing
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gene x novel environment
many diseases may fall in this category:diabetes
heart diseaseanxiety
alcoholismdyslexia
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since evolution builds on previous designs, some features are not ideal
4. Design compromises and evolutionary legacies
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Choking
1/100,000 people die of choking each year 1/100,000 people die of choking each year
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Choking
our foodour food--pipe and our airpipe and our air--pipe pipe crosscross
what advantage what advantage could this could this
design design possibly have? possibly have?
nonenone
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the design appears to be an evolutionary legacy
in fish, the mouth is used for both in fish, the mouth is used for both feeding and breathingfeeding and breathing
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rearrangement of this area to allow rearrangement of this area to allow speechspeech make the problem worsemake the problem worse
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Evolutionary medicine can improve treatment decisions
• Defenses: Don’t work against symptoms that reflect your body’s weapons again disease or injury
• Infection: Change environment to favor low virulence of pathogens
• Old genes/new contexts: Alter current environment/behavior to reduce negative impact
• Design compromises: ?
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(1) What was the most important thing you learned this week?
(2) What was least clear from lecture this week?