Author(s): Jeffrey C. Hall (Editor), Jay C. Dunlap (Editor), Theodore Friedmann (Editor), Francesco Giannelli (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Publication Date: August 29, 1997
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 414 pages
ISBN-10: 012017636X
ISBN-13: 9780120176366
Book Description
Advances in Genetics increases its focus on modern human genetics and its relation to medicine with the merger of this long-standing serial with Molecular Genetic Medicine. This merger affirms theAcademic Press commitment to publish important reviews of the broadest interest to geneticists and their colleagues in affiliated disciplines.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Outstanding both in variety and in the quality of its contributions.” –NATURE
“Can be highly recommended to geneticists, and biologists in general…will prove to be of high importance for the development of the science of genetics.”
–SCIENCE
“The high standards of the Advances series of Academic Press are now almost taken for granted. The new volume matches up to the revolutionary and all-embracing developments in genetics that have occurred over the last few years.”
–SCIENCE PROGRESS
“This text would be of interest to geneticists, botanists, developmental biologists, molecular biologists, and other interested individuals.”
–BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS
From the Back Cover
Advances in Genetics continues to present articles that are of interest to both human and molecular geneticists. This volume begins with an excellent review by Bell and Haites of the various classifications of, mechanisms of, and molecular diagnostic tests for peroneal muscular atrophy (or CMT). Melissa Brown critically examines the importance of tumor suppressor genes in human cancer and a number of the significant problems faced by cancer geneticists. The notion of genetic redundancy and whether functional redundancy can exist is investigated by John Brookfield in Chapter 3. Pierre Hutter discusses recent findings on speciation and the role of hybrid inviability in Drosophila. Westenberg and Guerinot review the effects of metal-regulated gene expression in cellular metabolism, pathogenicity, and toxicity. Finally, David Perkins provides extensive descriptions of chromosomal translocations in Neuraospora and other fungi and for use in executing genetic crosses.
About the Author
School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, USA
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