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The human genome in health and disease : a story of four letters /

The human genome is a linear sequence of roughly three billion bases and information regarding this genome is accumulating at an astonishing rate. Inspired by these advances, The Human Genome in Health and Disease: A Story of Four Letters explores the intimate link between sequence information and b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samuelsson, Tore, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Human genome.
Human gene mapping.
Genome, Human.
Disease > genetics.
Table of Contents:
  • A molecular disorder
  • A code of life
  • The genome
  • Variants in the human genome sequence and their biological significance
  • The critical protein coding sequences
  • Triplet repeats and neurodegenerative disorders
  • The untranslated parts of a message
  • Exons, introns, and a royal bleeding disorder
  • The regulation of transcription
  • The noncoding RNAs
  • Computational methods are critical in the analysis of molecular sequences
  • Diagnosing the genome
  • Correcting genome errors.