Altynova Nazym Kalikhanovna, PhD, Head of the Laboratory of Population Genetics of the Institute of Genetics and Physiology of the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2005–2008, she studied at the doctoral program (Ph.D.) at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. In 2008, she defended her dissertation for the academic degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences on the topic "Assessment of genetic risk in the long-term impact of radiation on residents living near the territory of the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site" in the specialty 03.00.15: Genetics. Her research interests are wide: radiation genetics; carcinogenesis; individual sensitivity and resistance of organisms to the influence of harmful environmental factors; determination of genetic predisposition factors to multifactorial diseases; sports genetics; population genetics; and paleogenetics.