The Applied Genetics of Humans, Animals, Plants and Fungi
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Author(s): B. Lamb
Publisher: Imperial College Press
ISBN: 9781860946103
Format: hardback
619pp
Price: £48.00
Review Date: 03 April 2007
Review: Applied genetics is the practical application of genetics to medicine, and to plant, animal and microbial breeding. This book is based on a final-year applied genetics course that the author has taught for 30 years at Imperial College, London. It teaches the general principles of applied genetics (population genetics, quantitative genetics, gene flow, mutation, recombination and chromosome aberrations), which all apply to humans, animals, plants and microbes, with relevant examples from each group. . Specialist aspects of each of these groups are also included, such as reproductive physiology. This edition has been updated and expanded, with more human and animal discussions. On the medical side, there has been a revolution in our understanding of many diseases, and in our ability to detect disorders by prenatal testing. There is a new section on genomics, and the large medical chapter includes pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, human gene sequencing, mosaics, chimeras and hermaphrodites, stem-cell therapy and cord-blood therapy. There are also some worked examples of problems.