عنوان

Genetic twists of fate /

شابک

026201470X (hardcover : alk. paper)

شابک

9780262014700 (hardcover : alk. paper)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Genetic twists of fate /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Mass. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

MIT Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2010

نام خاص و کميت اثر

ix, 222 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations, map ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-217) and index

متن يادداشت

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 -- 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 -- Finding the gene. Mistakes happen : the mutations of cancer -- Reshuffling the genetic deck : a cancer gene in the neighborhood -- 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 -- 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

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Fields and Johnston explain what our personal DNA code is, how a few differences in its long list of our DNA letters makes each of us unique, and how that code influences our appearance, our behavior, and our risk for such common diseases as diabetes or cancer. --from publisher description

موضوع مستند نشده

Human genetics, Popular works

موضوع مستند نشده

Medical genetics, Popular works

موضوع مستند نشده

Genetic Predisposition to Disease

موضوع مستند نشده

Genetics, Medical

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Fields, Stanley

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Johnston, Mark,1951-

تاريخ عمليات

20110805022801.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y