genetics books

	Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits: Linkage, Maps and QTL (Statistics for Biology and Health)
	By: Rongling Wu, Changxing Ma, George Casella ISBN: 0387203346 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 31 July, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 148208
	Statistical Genetics: Gene Mapping Through Linkage and Association
	By: Benjamin M. Neale, Manuel A.R. Ferreira, Sarah E. Medland, Danielle Posthuma ISBN: 0415410401 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Release Date: 01 December, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 188364
	Anthropological Genetics: Theory, Methods and Applications
	By: Michael H. Crawford ISBN: 0521546974 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 25 December, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 481021	This text is basically an anthropology textbook on human evolution that integrates the latest biological and cultural research. It comes from the merger of genetic analysis and cultural anthropology. The authors see a co-evolution of genes with culture that helps to define the organism and the environment in which they live in which both are acting as cause and effect. <br /> <br />This book was written at the suggestion of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics (AAAG) with the intent of being used as a textbook at the advanced undergraduage and graduate level. It is broken into four major parts: <br /> <br />Theory: Covering Evolution and Genetic Variations and Isolates <br />Methods: Field Research, historical demography, molecular markers <br />General Applications: Forensic DNA, Emerging technology, Linkage analysis <br />The Human Diaspora: Africa, Europe, Oceania, Americas. <br /> <br />Dr. Crawford originally was to be the editor of the book. Due to contributors failing to meet promised deadlines, he has written a substantial part of the book.
	Practical Genetic Counselling
	By: Peter S. Harper ISBN: 034081196X Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication Release Date: 07 October, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 123517	An updated, easy to use handbook which deals with the most common genetic disorders, their risk to be transmitted and their mode of inheritance. The book is easy to use and the tabels are simple and clear. However some additional information regarding cancer genetics could be helpful.
	Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
	By: Alice Wexler ISBN: 0520207416 Publisher: University of California Press Release Date: 30 December, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 254706	Beautiful book. This book brings to life the science of Huntington's, as well as the personal dilemmas surrounding genetic testing, as written by one of the pioneers of this test. I also recommend [[ASIN:0679763902 Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior]] to anyone who enjoys this book for the scientific, biographical aspect. Wexler tells an incredible story of both the personal and medical aspects of HD. She takes the time to explain the important biological and genetic background, while not overwhelming you with useless facts. She does a wonderful job explaining the pain of having a family member with HD, while not soley focusing on their struggles. I learned a lot about HD through this book, and would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about the disease and its biological basis. I felt Mapping Fate was a very informative and interesting book about Huntington's disease and genetic testing. I highly recommend it for anyone with Huntington's disease risk in their family. Also, very useful for anyone interested in genetics and genetic testing. <br /> <br />
	Introducing Genetics, New Edition (Introducing (Icon))
	By: Steve Jones ISBN: 1840466367 Publisher: Totem Books Release Date: 25 December, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 320410	This 2005 edition may exhibit an updated text. My own copy of the book is a 2001 reprint of the original text from 1993, and one thing that struck me as I read it was that over those 8 years there appeared to have been no changes made. Not only is genetics a very modern science, its profile has risen spectacularly within the scientific community over a period of not many years, so I expect there must have been a fair amount of updating to do. Nevertheless this is explicitly a book for beginners, the approach taken is chronological in recounting the successive discoveries, the author is a leading and eminent expert who presumably would not have countenanced reprints of any statements he wished to retract, so I have to suppose that the text as I have it remains valid as far as it goes. We beginners have to begin at the beginning, this is the beginning, reviews here are almost non-existent, and it may be helpful in that case if I give my fellow neophytes some idea of what to expect, even if I am not fully up to date. <br /> <br />Professor Steve Jones of University College London is well known, at least in Britain, from television. Everyone has heard of DNA these days even if they do not know what those letters stand for (see my caption above). We have clearly opened another Pandora's box by dabbling in this matter, and in my edition Jones concludes by touching on the ethical and political issues that our new discoveries raise. Whatever additions or amendments he may have added in retrospect, his remarks reflect his mindset, which is level-headed and humane, and his media appearances have not suggested to me that he has espoused any significantly new views in these respects. <br /> <br />The main narrative is historical, in the simple chronological sense. Jones really starts with Mendel and his experiments on peas, having given Darwin only a cursory mention before that. Other major figures are given what I take to be their due mention, the main actors are, expectedly, Crick and Watson the discoverers of the double helix, and subsequent research is also noted in my edition up to `the 1990's'. The picture I gained was much what I would have thought - advances in research have shown the matter to be enormously more complex than even Crick and Watson, let alone Mendel, envisaged. However the basic models that these pioneers created seem to have stood the test of time and look likely to continue to. The tedious debate over creationism is mercifully ignored, although the author readily admits that the phenomenon of being alive, whereby living tissue creates new tissue, remains a mystery, at least so far. Science can now trace the processes at work in detail, but what these processes ultimately are seems unidentified. <br /> <br />The original text is credited to not just Steve Jones but also to the illustrator Borin Van Loon [sic]. Every page from start to finish, or at least until we reach Jones's `footnote', is larded with illustrative matter, mostly cartoons. Whether some readers may find this style patronising I don't know, but if so I for one was quite happy to be patronised. For all the clarity of Jones's exposition the main text can't avoid being slightly heavy going here and there, and I found that the illustrations lightened my own going very successfully. It all seems very simple to start with, but here and there new terms creep in without prior explanation, although they are usually clarified before too long. The style is basically that of a good lecturer with a sense of how to keep the audience's attention without diluting or over-simplifying the message. <br /> <br />Jones comments wryly that while for scientists the four letters of the genetic `alphabet' are G C T A, now that the subject has got well and truly into the public and tabloid domain H Y P E might sometimes seem to characterise the discussion better. Genetics explains much, and it opens up enormous possibilities in real life, whether these be seen as promises or as threats. In the text as I have it, he hedges his bets and does not over-commit himself to either side of the argument. However he permits himself some down-to-earth observations to the effect that whether or not genetically modified crops may be in some way dangerous, there is no `whether' about it when the food in question is cheeseburgers; and whatever may be said about human cloning the phenomenon is not new but as old as the first ever pair of identical twins. <br /> <br />As an introduction I found this book admirable. We all have, it seems to me, a responsibility to inform ourselves as best we can about subjects as important as this is. When the matter is set out for us as clearly as it is here it is something approaching irresponsible not to take the opportunity we are given, and worse than irresponsible to promote points of view from a basis of culpable ignorance. I've read several in the series, I'd give the Genetics book 5 stars. I'm no where near a Genetics expert, so I can't comment on the correctness of the work, but I did get quite a lot out of it.
	Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process: A Practice Manual
	By: Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Dianne M. Bartels ISBN: 0387003304 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 14 August, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 98594
	A Primer of Conservation Genetics
	By: Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe, Karina H. McInnes ISBN: 0521538270 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 23 February, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 642680	The book is fine for beginners in the conservation genetics. <br />So the price, I think that is expensive, because the book is just only an introduction <br />to conservation genetics.
	The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering (Canto)
	By: Susan Aldridge ISBN: 0521625092 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 28 March, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 698630	This is a straightforward exposition; it doesn't try to come at the material from a novel angle (cf Ridley's "Genome), nor does it dwell on arguments such as nature vs. nurture. What it does do is explain the science in remarkable depth in a short book. For me, much of the material was review/clarification, but I suspect it would work for those with less background. Aldridge is disciplined in what she covers, writes clearly, uses diagrams when it will help, and seems to choose just the correct level of detail. She includes details you might not expect to find, when they are important: for example, some human proteins cannot be made by bacteria because humans add sugars to these protein molecules AFTER they are created using RNA, and bacteria do not have this capability. I do wish the index were more complete, it just is not helpful enough if you wish to review something covered earlier. Also, in the last section on bio-technology, Aldridge is much less disciplined, tries to cover too much too fast, and I found myself with numerous unanswered questions. I found myself enjoying this book after punching through the initial chapters that served as the science primer for defining DNA. The author gets credit for laying out the biological concepts that the reader will need to know to understand the material that comes later (e.g., genetic engineering). Assuming you have no prior background, you'll need to learn these concepts before you can follow the various applications of genetic engineering she goes into. The writing style is lean, but doesn't gloss over the complexity of the subject.<p>The book shines in its treatment of genetic engineering and biotechnology. And unlike a number of more recent books doesn't get fixated on the human genome project or sequencing in general. Actually, even with the book being several years old, I found many of the topics covered to be of interest even to date. Examples include a discussion of the "selfish gene" (proposed by Richard Dawkins), the theory of endosymbiosis pioneered by Lynn Margulis, the "ice-minus" bacteria used to keep strawberries from frost damage, and the genetically engineered "flavor-saver" tomato. <p>The applications of genetic engineering described in the book are definitely relevant and important (e.g., cloning, drug discovery, plant science, and environmental cleanup). And to the author's credit, she doesn't appear to take too strong a position on either side of the biotechnology ethic's debate. I learned a great deal from this book and enjoyed reading it. However I sometimes felt like the "tour" was moving too fast...great breadth but (perhaps unavoidably) not much depth. Additional figures and diagrams would have been helpful. I was surprised that there was no mention of the increasingly important role of computer science / bioinformatics. Still, if you are looking for a primer on the fundamental scientific methods, and an objective presentation of the key issues, this is a good place to start. A great many scientific ideas packed into a small volume.
	The Ultimate Study Guide For Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (Topics: Origin of Living Things & Chemistry of Life, Structure and Function of the Cell & Energy Pathways, Reproduction and Heredity, Genetics) Volume 1
	By: Patrick Leonardi ISBN: 1933023007 Publisher: Silver Educational Publishing Release Date: July, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 563906	The questions and answers were so helpful in this book. I could test myself to see what I knew or didn't know for my college exams. The questions really were key to helping me get very good grades. I also highly recommend his Volume 2 and Volume 3 of The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology. If you want to increase your chances of getting excellent grades, I would definitely get these three books. This study guide had pratically every type of question I needed to know for my college biology exams. The author really knows what is asked on exams. His explanations were very good, too. This was a wonderful learning tool because I could test myself to see how much I really knew for the exam. I found it better to get the questions wrong in this study guide then to get them wrong on the exams. I used his other two volumes also which <br />are--- The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Volume 2 and The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Volume 3. These guides were very helpful for biology I and biology II.