Genetic twists of fate /

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Main Author: Fields, Stanley
Other Authors: Johnston, Mark, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
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505 0 |a 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 -- 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 -- 3. Finding the gene: Mistakes happen: the mutations of cancer -- Reshuffling the genetic deck: a cancer gene in the neighbourhood -- 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 -- 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. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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