A Primer of Human Genetics

ISBN-13: 9781605353135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 442 str.

Greg Gibson

Opis

A Primer of Human Genetics is an introductory textbook designed to give students the foundation they need to understand and appreciate the extraordinary shifts in human genetics that have accompanied the arrival of genomics.

Recenzje

This text excites the avid student to pursue research in genetics by providing insightful resources in a concise manner. Additionally, this text hits the mark on providing emerging methods and technologies into a quick reference with appended summary bibliography at the end of each chapter. The illustrations are clear and convey the overall broad aims without getting into the minutiae. The author does a great service to the field by providing this informative resource.

O autorze

Greg Gibson is Professor and Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and holds an adjunct appointment at Emory University School of Medicine. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Biology at the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. in Cell Biology at the University of Basel (with Walter J. Gehring). He worked for 15 years with the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster, mostly while at North Carolina State University, during which time he wrote A Primer of Genome Science with Spencer Muse. Dr. Gibson serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research is in quantitative genetics and genomics, focusing on environmental and genetic sources of human variability, the regulation of gene expression in immunogenomics, and predictive health.