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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.042
EAN num: 9780470140192
ISBN number: 0470140194
Label: Wiley-Blackwell
Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Page Count: 440
Printing Date: October 20, 2008
Publishing house: Wiley-Blackwell
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- Six new chapters on vital topics of interest such as multilocus SNP genotyping (SNP chips), RNAi, ChIP-chip, and genomic tiling arrays
- New edition responds to reviewers' and users' desire for greater coverage—now the most useful handbook on the market!
- Practical, concise summary of everything about genomics and emerging technologies a busy physician or medical student should know
- Covers concepts and techniques that are in use in medicine now, as well as those on the cutting-edge of science relevant to medicine, from bioinformatics to DNA diagnostics and proteomics
- NEW: Includes chapter-end exercises, enhancing the utility of the new edition as a textbook
- NEW: PowerPoint slides of images available at instructor website
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If you are not a biologist or MD, and want to see where the application of genomics to medicine is going, try Brown's book. In clear language, he and other writers explain the key ideas and promises in this field. Like what can be done with massive genomic databases, by aiding the search for inherited diseases, and isolating these to certain places in the DNA.
One chapter looks at gene therapy. Currently, still mostly speculative. Much remains to be done to make it viable for many people. But this chapter is perhaps the most far reaching, if its potential can be fully realised. Related to this is another chapter about proteomics, which is another buzzword. We see that protein structures are another field, closely related, that also holds big promises for understanding and treatments.
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"...this book was exactly what I was looking for: a high-level overview of genomic technologies and their application...Brown's book is highly recommended..." (Pharmaceutical Research, Vol. 20, No. 6, June 2003)
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"readable account of the underpinnings of genomics and its medical applications...a clearly written book that makes a complex discipline understandable..." (New England Journal of Medicine, July 24, 2003)
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"...a good purchase for...academic or medical libraries as well as large public ones." (E-Streams, Vol. 6, No. 5, May 2003)
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"It will be quite useful to anyone from other fields who is interested in a taste of what emerging technologies in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics can bring to bear on questions of potential importance in biomedical research." --American Journal of Human Genetics
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