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(2 reviews) Author: Joel T. Dudley ISBN : 9780199644483 New from $100.50 Format: PDF
Direct download links available PRETITLE Exploring Personal Genomics POSTTITLE from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link (2 reviews) Author: Joel T. Dudley ISBN : 9780199644483 New from $100.50 Format: PDFRapid advances in high-throughput genome sequencing technologies foreshadow a near-future in which millions of individuals will gain affordable access to their complete genome sequence. This promises to offer unprecedented insights into the fundamental biological nature of ourselves and our species: where we came from, how we begin our lives, how we develop and grow, how we interact with our environment, how we get sick, how we get well, and how we age. Personal genomics is an essential component of the inevitable transition towards personalized health and medicine. As the medical establishment begins to explore and evaluate the role of personal genomics in health and medicine, both clinicians and patients alike will gain from becoming well versed in both the power and the pitfalls of personal genomic information. Furthermore, it is likely that all students of the biomedical sciences will soon be required to gain crucial understanding in the emerging field of personal genomics.
Exploring Personal Genomics provides a novel, inquiry-based approach to the understanding and interpretation of the practical, medical, physiological, and societal aspects of personal genomic information. The material is presented in two parts: the first provides readers of all backgrounds with a fundamental understanding of the biology of human genomes, information on how to obtain and understand digital representations of personal genomic data, tools and techniques for exploring the personal genomics of ancestry and genealogy, discovery and interpretation of genetic trait associations, and the role of personal genomics in drug response. The second part offers more advanced readers an understanding of the science, tools, and techniques for investigating interactions between a personal genome and the environment, connecting DNA to physiology, and assessing rare variants and structural variation.
This book aims to support undergraduate and graduate studies in medicine, genetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. Additionally, the design of the content is such that medical practitioners, professionals working in the biomedical sciences or related fields, and motivated lay individuals interested in exploring their personal genetic data should find it relevant and approachable.
Direct download links available for PRETITLE Exploring Personal Genomics [Hardcover] POSTTITLE Exploring Personal Genomics provides a novel, inquiry-based approach to the understanding and interpretation of the practical, medical, physiological, and societal aspects of personal genomic information. The material is presented in two parts: the first provides readers of all backgrounds with a fundamental understanding of the biology of human genomes, information on how to obtain and understand digital representations of personal genomic data, tools and techniques for exploring the personal genomics of ancestry and genealogy, discovery and interpretation of genetic trait associations, and the role of personal genomics in drug response. The second part offers more advanced readers an understanding of the science, tools, and techniques for investigating interactions between a personal genome and the environment, connecting DNA to physiology, and assessing rare variants and structural variation.
This book aims to support undergraduate and graduate studies in medicine, genetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. Additionally, the design of the content is such that medical practitioners, professionals working in the biomedical sciences or related fields, and motivated lay individuals interested in exploring their personal genetic data should find it relevant and approachable.
- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199644489
- ISBN-13: 978-0199644483
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 8 x 10 inches
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This is an outstanding book which provides an excellent survey of a complex field that changes on a weekly basis. I read this book wearing a couple of different hats - as a medical practitioner, and as an informatician. As a medical practitioner who graduated ~5 years ago, I can say that my medical education included very little about genetics, even less about genomics and informatics was not a word I recall hearing at all. Yet the confluence of these fields is sure to transform the way that medicine is practiced (and already is in some fields, such as oncology), and is fundamental to improving the level of care available to many patients.
I would absolutely recommend this book to any clinician (doctors, nurses, genetic counsellors, allied health professionals etc) as an excellent survey of the field of personal genomics. It provides a query based approach, meaning that a motivated reader can easily apply currently available tools to their own (or sample) genomic data, and gain an understanding of the strengths, limitations and caveats that should be applied when trying to turn a mass of genomic data into something that is actually actionable. As well as describing currently available tools and methods of genomic interpretation, the authors describe in approachable prose, the statistical and conceptual underpinnings of many of the current tools, which can facilitate the critical review of additional tools for genomic interpretation which may become available in the future. I would whole-heartedly encourage medical educators to consider integrating tutorials like those available in this book into their teachings.
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