基本信息; 商家编号;807 作者;Stanley Fields (作者), Mark Johnston (作者) 出版社: MIT Press; 1 (2010年11月2日) 精装: 240页 语种: 英语 ISBN: 026201470X 条形码: 9780262014700 商品尺寸: 15.2 x 1.3 x 22.9 cm 商品重量: 467 g
内容简介 News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone's personal DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the next ten years, hospitals may present parents with their newborn's complete DNA code along with her footprints and APGAR score. In Genetic Twists of Fate, distinguished geneticists Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston help us make sense of the genetic revolution that is upon us. Fields and Johnston tell real life stories that hinge on the inheritance of one tiny change rather than another in an individual's DNA: a mother wrongly accused of poisoning her young son when the true killer was a genetic disorder; the screen siren who could no longer remember her lines because of Alzheimer's disease; and the president who was treated with rat poison to prevent another heart attack. In an engaging and accessible style, Fields and Johnston explain what our personal DNA code is, how a few differences in its long list of 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.
媒体推荐 "Fields and Johnston succeed in providing an accessible text that may appeal to the general public, and that is both enlightening and entertaining." -- Anthony J. Dellureficio, The Quarterly Review of Biology
作者简介 Stanley Fields is Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine at the University of Washington and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Mark Johnston is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genetics.
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