Genetic Twists of Fate
Publisher: MIT
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780262014700
Table of contents: title: Your personal genome : Googling your DNA; title: Part one : What do genes do?; title: Genes are the instructions for life : AIDS and the uncommon man; title: Proteins are the workhorses of the cell : misdiagnosis of a metabolic malady; title: All from a single cell : how a fertilized egg develops into a baby; title: When the gene is the cure : immunodeficiency and gene therapy; title: When cells are the cure : diabetes and stem cells; title: Part two : The inheritance of the gene.; title: When one gene is enough : the enzyme missing in an inherited disease; title: When one gene is too much : at risk for Huntington's Disease; title: Genes to remember : the growing burden of Alzheimer's Disease; title: Blaming our genes : the heritability of behavior; title: Part three : Finding the gene.; title: Mistakes happen : the mutations of cancer; title: Reshuffling the genetic deck : a cancer gene in the neighborhood; title: A family affair : mapping a gene for ALS; title: Signposts for common disease : focusing on macular degeneration; title: The President who swallowed rat poison : preventing the next heart attack; title: Part four : The gene in evolution.; title: The law of evolution : Darwin, Wallace, and the survival of the fittest; title: Around the world in fifty thousand years : the genetics of race; title: Your personal DNA code : summing up