Evolution's clinical guidebook : translating ancient genes into precision medicine /

Evolution's Clinical Guidebook: Translating Ancient Genes into Precision Medicine demonstrates, through well-documented examples, how an understanding of the phylogenetic ancestry of humans allows us to make sense out of the flood of genetic data streaming from modern laboratories and how it ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Berman, Jules J. (Author)
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Genetics > Data processing. Bioinformatics. Precision medicine. Evolution (Biology) Genetic Phenomena Biological Evolution Precision Medicine Computational Biology Génétique > Informatique. Bio-informatique. Médecine de précision. Évolution (Biologie) evolution. SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution. Bioinformatics Genetics > Data processing Precision medicine Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Evolution, From the Beginning; 2. Shaking Up the Genome; 3. Evolution and Embryonic Development; 4. Speciation; 5. Phylogeny: Eukaryotes to Chordates; 6. Phylogeny: Craniates to Humans; 7. Trapped by Evolution; 8. Animal Models of Human Disease: Opportunities and Limitations; 9. Medical Proof of Evolution