Pt. 1. Your personal genome : Googling your DNA. What do genes do?
Genes are the instructions for life : AIDS and the uncommon man ; Proteins are the workhorses of the cell : misdiagnosis of a metabolic malady
All from a single cell : how a fertilized egg develops into a baby
When the gene is the cure : immunodeficiency and gene therapy
When cells are the cure : diabetes and stem cells
Pt. 2. The inheritance of the gene. When one gene is enough : the enzyme missing in an inherited disease
When one gene is too much : at risk for Huntington's Disease
Genes to remember : the growing burden of Alzheimer's Disease
Blaming our genes : the heritability of behavior
Pt. 3. Finding the gene. Mistakes happen : the mutations of cancer
Reshuffling the genetic deck : a cancer gene in the neighborhood
A family affair : mapping a gene for ALS
Signposts for common disease : focusing on macular degeneration
The President who swallowed rat poison : preventing the next heart attack
Pt. 4. The gene in evolution. The law of evolution : Darwin, Wallace, and the survival of the fittest
Around the world in fifty thousand years : the genetics of race
Your personal DNA code : summing up.
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Genetic twists of fate by Stanley Fields. ISBN 9780262014700. Published by MIT Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
