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Subject(s)

• Medical genetics—Popular works [Browse]
• Human genetics—Popular works [Browse]

Related name

• Johnston, Mark, 1951- [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-217) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Pt. 4. 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.

ISBN

• 9780262014700 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 026201470X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010006926

OCLC

542263629

RCP

N - S