Understand Your Dna: A Guide - Couverture souple

Folkersen, Lasse

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9811205698 ISBN 13 : 9789811205699

Editeur : WSPC, 2018

Synopsis

Are you considering to test your own DNA? Do you want to learn more about your health and ancestry? Understand your DNA A Guide is about what you can use genetics for. For a few hundred dollars, you can now scan your own genes. Millions of people all over the world have already done so. Everyone wants to see what they can get to know about themselves, and the market growing rapidly. But what does it require from you? And what can you really use a DNA test for? Understand your DNA A Guide helps you put the plots and charts of consumer genetics into perspective and enables you to figure out what's up and down in the media headlines. The book is also a key input for today's debate about what we as a society can and want to do with medical genetics. Genetics will play a growing role in the future. Understand your DNA A Guide is an easy-to-read and necessary guide to that future. The book is provided with a foreword by Professor Sham Pak-Chung of Hong Kong University.

While there are many books about genetics, they typically take the perspective of a scientist wanting to understand the molecular levels. At the same time, direct-to-consumer genetics is a booming market, with millions of people already tested. Very little has been published that will guide them for real, because the need here is more focused on medical and practical understanding, than focussed on molecules.

This book therefore aims to hit that vacant spot in the market. It's a walk-through of all concepts that are necessary to understand in your own analysis. Meanwhile, it is also limited in scope to only those concepts thus distinguishing it from broader works.

The book is appropriate for the readerships in modern multi-ethnic metropolises because it mixes European and Asian examples, both from the collaboration between the author from Europe and the foreword-writer, Prof. Pak Sham of Hong Kong University. But also, because many of the examples in the book concerns differences and similarities between Asian and European ethnicities, something the author believes is a trend in time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lasse Folkersen is a scientist working with human genetics. He completed his PhD in 2011 at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Translation of genetics to practical application has since then been a central research theme. This has resulted in hundreds of published scientific papers, both on actual discovery of genetic variants, but also on the translation of discoveries into clinical application. Lasse currently holds a position as lead scientist at Sankt Hans Hospital, Denmark.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WSPC
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811205698
• ISBN 13: 9789811205699
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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