Genetic twists of fate / Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston.
2010
616.042 F463g 2010
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Title
Genetic twists of fate / Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston.
Author
ISBN
9780262014700 (hardcover : alk. paper)
026201470X (hardcover : alk. paper)
026201470X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
ix, 222 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
616.042 F463g 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)542263629
(OCoLC)542263629
(OCoLC)542263629
Summary
Fields and Johnston explain what our personal DNA code is, how a few differences in its long list of our DNA letters makes each of us unique, and how that code influences our appearance, our behavior, and our risk for such common diseases as diabetes or cancer. --from publisher description
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-217) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Your personal genome : Googling your DNA
What do genes do?. Genes are the instructions for life : AIDS and the uncommon man ; Proteins are the workhorses of the cell : misdiagnosis of a metabolic malady
All from a single cell : how a fertilized egg develops into a baby
When the gene is the cure : immunodeficiency and gene therapy
When cells are the cure : diabetes and stem cells
The inheritance of the gene. When one gene is enough : the enzyme missing in an inherited disease
When one gene is too much : at risk for Huntington's Disease
Genes to remember : the growing burden of Alzheimer's Disease
Blaming our genes : the heritability of behavior
Finding the gene. Mistakes happen : the mutations of cancer
Reshuffling the genetic deck : a cancer gene in the neighborhood
A family affair : mapping a gene for ALS
Signposts for common disease : focusing on macular degeneration
The President who swallowed rat poison : preventing the next heart attack
The gene in evolution. The law of evolution : Darwin, Wallace, and the survival of the fittest
Around the world in fifty thousand years : the genetics of race
Your personal DNA code : summing up.
What do genes do?. Genes are the instructions for life : AIDS and the uncommon man ; Proteins are the workhorses of the cell : misdiagnosis of a metabolic malady
All from a single cell : how a fertilized egg develops into a baby
When the gene is the cure : immunodeficiency and gene therapy
When cells are the cure : diabetes and stem cells
The inheritance of the gene. When one gene is enough : the enzyme missing in an inherited disease
When one gene is too much : at risk for Huntington's Disease
Genes to remember : the growing burden of Alzheimer's Disease
Blaming our genes : the heritability of behavior
Finding the gene. Mistakes happen : the mutations of cancer
Reshuffling the genetic deck : a cancer gene in the neighborhood
A family affair : mapping a gene for ALS
Signposts for common disease : focusing on macular degeneration
The President who swallowed rat poison : preventing the next heart attack
The gene in evolution. The law of evolution : Darwin, Wallace, and the survival of the fittest
Around the world in fifty thousand years : the genetics of race
Your personal DNA code : summing up.
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