The human recipe : understanding your genes in today's society /

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"A smart and witty guide to all you want to know about human genetics. Human genetics is not the playground of science alone. Genetics concerns all of us, for we all have DNA, genes, genomes, and chromosomes. Our genes determine partly our appearance and our behaviour, our talents and our healt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Borry, Pascal, 1976- (Autor), Matthijs, Gert (Autor)
Otros Autores: Snaet, Joris (Ilustrador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Dutch
Publicado: Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2016]
Edición:English language edition.
Temas:
Genes > Social aspects.
Human genome > Social aspects.
Genetics.
Human genome.
Genome, Human
Genetics
Gènes > Aspect social.
Génome humain > Aspect social.
Génétique.
Génome humain.
genetics.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biochemistry.
MEDICAL > Genetics.
Genes
Genomes
Human genome
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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