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When a gene makes you smell like a fish-- and other tales about the genes in your body /
From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "bitter gene" that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the cu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- When a gene makes you smell like a fish
- It takes two to tango
- The first gene
- Phenylketonuria and the first genetic test
- Maple syrup urine
- The Tangier Island gene
- The Celtic curse
- Metallic madness
- Just one bad apple--
- The long stretch gene
- The Dracula gene
- The expandable gene
- You can blame it on mom
- The gene that launched a revolution
- The fragile X
- The werewolf gene
- The cue ball gene
- Leaving an imprint
- Whither mom or dad gene
- The calico cat gene
- When a gene won't silence
- Just a little piece of the puzzle
- Speaking with a "forked tongue"
- The cheeseburger gene
- The bitter gene, or the battle over broccoli
- The Schwarzenegger gene: from mighty mice to hulking human
- A performance gene
- An aging gene
- In the beginning--
- The cut-and-paste genes
- Jomon genes
- Survivors' benefit
- The pregnancy genes
- The "got milk?" gene
- Innate sensing genes
- The sidedness genes
- Epilogue: snippets of information reveal the whole?
- Appendix: a genetics primer.