Genetic twists of fate
By: Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston
Contributors: Johnston, Mark, 1951-
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780262014700
Subjects: Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Human genetics; Popular Works; Medical Genetics; Medical genetics; Popular works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Your personal genome : Googling your DNA. What do genes do?; title: Genes are the instructions for life : AIDS and the uncommon man ; 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: Pt. 2. The inheritance of the gene. 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: Pt. 3. Finding the gene. 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: Pt. 4. The gene in evolution. 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.