Curiosity guides
Subtitle: the human genome
By: John Quackenbush.
Publisher: Imagine
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781936140152
Subjects: Human genome -- Popular works; Genetics -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a race to the future; title: A brief history of the genome project; title: About the map; title: Back to basics; title: Mendel's garden: setting the stage; title: Darwin's natural selection; title: Cells: a hidden universe; title: Chromosomes and genetic traits; title: Human chromosomes; title: DNA: the molecule of heredity; title: The central dogma of molecular biology; title: DNA to RNA to protein; title: Gene mapping and sequencing before the HGP; title: Of mice and men, and other creatures; title: Bacteria; title: Escherichia coli; title: Haemophaleus influenzae; title: Brewer's yeast: saccharomyces cerevisiae; title: Roundworm: Caenorhabditis elegans; title: Fruit fly: Drosophila melanogaster; title: Human: Homo sapiens; title: The next wave of HGPs; title: A genome grab bag; title: Plants: genome giants; title: Miscellaneous mammals; title: The unseen world; title: Reading the book of life; title: Take a look at yourself; title: What's in a number?; title: Linking genes to traits and functions; title: Mutation: in the eye of the beholder?; title: Population genomics: something for everyone; title: Gene regulation and expression; title: Genomics applied: tackling cancer; title: What is cancer?; title: Linking genes and cancer; title: Surveying gene expression; title: Using microarrays in cancer study; title: Cancer, many diseases; title: Toward personalized cancer care; title: Cancer viruses and vaccines; title: The future of cancer therapy; title: Genes and the roots of disease; title: Beyond mendel: modern genetics; title: Huntington's disease: an autosomal dominant disease; title: Cystic fibrosis: an autosomal recessive disease; title: Diabetes: a polygenic, multifactorial disease; title: Genes, environment, or both?; title: Genetics and infectious disease; title: It takes a village: social environments and disease; title: Personalized medicine; title: Systems biology: more than the sum of our parts; title: The genomics of evolution; title: Out of Africa: genomic diversity; title: Y chromosomal adam; title: Mitochondrial Eve; title: Neanderthals: our lost cousins; title: Are we the third chimpanzee?; title: A brave new genomic world; title: Forensic genomics; title: Genomes 'r' us; title: Learning from Watson's genome; title: Stem cells; title: A word about cloning; title: Prenatal testing and gene therapy; title: Legal and ethical concerns; title: Our genomic future.