Genetic Twists of Fate

by Stanley Fields and Mark D. Johnston

Book Overview

How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.

News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone's personal DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the next ten years, hospitals may present parents with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518643
• ISBN13: 9780262518642
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher