The Human Recipe : Understanding Your Genes in Today's Society /

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Human genetics is not the playground of science alone. Genetics concerns all of us, for we all have DNA, genes, genomes, and chromosomes. In fact, our genes determine our appearance and our behaviour. They even define our talents and our health risks. The authors of The Human Recipe explain clearly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Borry, Pascal, 1976- (Autor), Matthijs, Gert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Dutch
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Edición:English language edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Genetics.
Human genome > Social aspects.
Genes > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The genome : the cookbook of life
  • Reading genomes
  • A gene, a genome, and then what?
  • Genetic disorders
  • Angelina Jolie's choice
  • Give me back my DNA!
  • We are all carriers
  • New test tracks for fetus DNA
  • Designer babies
  • As long as it stays in the family
  • Everyone's genome investigated
  • Finding out more than you would want to know
  • HELP! : the government has my DNA!
  • Genome hackers
  • A Neanderthal in all of us?
  • Mudbloods
  • My Olympic DNA
  • The godfather
  • Personalizing medicine to fit your genetic profile
  • Gene therapy, a medicine?
  • Consumer genomics
  • Genes and patents
  • X and Y.

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