Autore |
Reilly Philip <1947->
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2000
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (359 p.)
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Disciplina |
599.93/5
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Soggetto topico |
Human genetics
Medical genetics
Genetic engineering
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ISBN |
0-87969-659-1
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- HISTORY Using DNA to Understand the Past -- 1 Abraham Lincoln Did He Have Marfan Syndrome? -- 2 Kings and Queens Genetic Diseases in Royal Families -- 3 Toulouse- Lautrec An Artist despite His Genes -- 4 Old Bones DNA and Skeletons -- JUSTICE The DNA Revolution in the Courts -- 5 DNA Detectives The New DNA Evidence -- 6 Cold Hits The Rise of DNA Felon Databanks -- 7 Genes and Violence Do Mutations Cause Crime? -- 8 Wrongful Birth What Should the Doctor Know? -- BEHAVIOR Do Genes Make Us the Way We Are? -- 9 Mental Illness How Much Is Genetic? -- 10 Personality Were We Born This Way? -- 11 Talent Nature or Nurture? -- 12 Gay Genes What's the Evidence? -- PLANTS AND ANIMALS Genetic Engineering and Nature -- 13 Genetically Modified Organisms The Next Green Revolution? -- 14 Transgenic Animals New Foods and New Factories -- 15 Endangered Species New Genes Beat Extinction -- 16 Xenotransplantation Animal Organs to Save Humans -- DISEASES The Genetic Revolution in Medicine -- 17 Cystic Fibrosis Should Everyone Be Tested? -- 18 Breast Cancer The Burden of Knowing -- 19 Alzheimer Disease Are You at High Risk? -- 20 Gene Therapy The Dream and the Reality -- DILEMMAS Genetic Technologies and Individual Choice -- 21 Genetic Testing and Privacy Who Should Be Able to Know Your Genes? -- 22 Frozen Embryos People or Property? -- 23 Cloning Why Is Everyone Opposed? -- 24 Eugenics Can We Improve the Gene Pool? -- Bibliography -- Index.
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