Genetic twists of fate /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.