The human genome: a user's guide
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1. Verfasser: Richards, Julia E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: San Diego, Calif. Elsevier Academic Press c2005
Ausgabe:2nd ed
Schriftenreihe:Elsevier science in society series
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Beschreibung:First ed. by R. Scott Hawley and Catherine A. Mori
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Section 1 THE BASICS OF HEREDITY -- 1 SLAYING MOLECULAR DRAGONS: BRENDA'S TALE -- 2 THE ANSWER IN A NUT SHELL: GENES, PROTEINS, AND THE BASIS OF LIFE -- 3 MENDEL AND THE CONCEPT OF THE GENE -- 4 HUMAN MENDELIAN GENETICS -- 5 ONE MAN'S TRAIT IS ANOTHER MAN'S DISEASE -- Section 2 THE CENTRAL DOGMA OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY -- 6 DNA: THE GENETIC ALPHABET -- 7 THE CENTRAL DOGMA OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: HOW GENES ENCODE PROTEINS -- 8 SPLICING THE MODULAR GENE -- 9 ORCHESTRATING THE HUMAN GENOME -- Section 3 HOW CHROMOSOMES MOVE -- 10 SO WHAT ARE CHROMOSOMES ANYWAY? -- 11 HOW CELLS MOVE YOUR GENES AROUND -- 12 PASSING GENES BETWEEN GENERATIONS -- 13 THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF HEREDITY -- Section 4 MUTATION -- 14 ABSENT ESSENTIALS AND MONKEY WRENCHES -- 15 HOW WE DETECT MUTATIONS -- 16 WE ARE ALL MUTANTS -- 17 WHAT CONSTITUTES NORMAL? -- 18 MUTATIONS IN MAMMOTH GENES -- 19 EXPANDED REPEAT TRAITS -- Section 5 GENES, CHROMOSOMES, AND SEX -- 20 THE X AND Y CHROMOSOMES: THE ODD COUPLE -- 21 GENETICS OF SEX, GENDER, AND ORIENTATION -- 22 ANEUPLOIDY: WHEN TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE COUNTS -- Section 6 BREAKING THE RULES -- 23 IMPRINTING -- 24 IMITATING HEREDITY: ONE TRAIT, MANY CAUSES -- Section 7 THE HUMAN GENOME LANDSCAPE -- 25 THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT -- 26 THERE'S CLONING AND THEN THERE'S CLONING -- 27 THE HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCE -- 28 FINDING GENES IN THE HUMAN GENOME -- Section 8 COMPLEX AND HETEROGENEOUS TRAITS -- 29 GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATIONS -- 30 HOW COMPLEX CAN IT GET? -- 31 QUANTITATIVE TRAITS -- 32 THE MAOA GENE: IS THERE A GENETIC BASIS FOR CRIMINALITY? -- 33 THE MULTIPLE-HIT HYPOTHESIS: THE GENETICS OF CANCER -- Section 9 GENETIC TESTING AND THERAPY -- 34 GENETIC TESTING AND SCREENING -- 35 MAGIC BULLETS: THE POTENTIAL FOR GENE THERAPY -- Section 10 FEARS, FAITH, AND FANTASIES -- 36 HEROES AMONG US -- 37 FEARS, FAITH, AND FANTASIES -- Credits -- Index -- Last Page
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