Hannah's Heirs : the Quest for the Genetic Origins of Alzheimer's Disease.

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The internationally acclaimed story of Hannah's Heirs now resumes in this updated paperback edition with the discovery in June, 1995 of Hannah's gene--now known to account for the majority of mutations causing early onset familial Alzheimer's disease--and the equally important identif...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pollen, Daniel A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Alzheimer's disease > Genetic aspects > Case studies.
Alzheimer's disease > Popular works.
Alzheimer's disease > Pathogenesis.
Maladie d'Alzheimer > Aspect génétique > Études de cas.
Maladie d'Alzheimer > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Maladie d'Alzheimer > Pathogenèse.
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease > Genetic aspects
Alzheimer's disease > Pathogenesis
Alzheimer's disease - Genetic aspects - Case studies.
Case studies
Popular works
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue; The Life and Death of Hannah; Gregor Mendel; Alois Alzheimer; The Descendants of Hannah and Shlomo; Mendel's Heirs; Alzheimer's Disease at Midcentury; Enter Genetics; New Seeds Are Sown; No Longer Alone; Twin Pillars of Hope; A Transmissible Virus?; Base Camp, Circa 1980; The New Basis for Linkage Maps of the Human Genome; The Quest for the Huntington's Disease Gene; Charles; Peter St. George-Hyslop and the Link to Chromosome 21; A Gene for Amyloid; A Siege of the Soul; Elizabeth W. and the Second Family from Bobruisk; A Unity of Heart and Mind; Russia Once Again.

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