genetics books

	Moonrise: One Family, Genetic Identity, and Muscular Dystrophy
	By: Penny Wolfson ISBN: 0312289081 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Release Date: 26 March, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 1145427	This book should appeal to readers who value the hard, loving truth-telling ability of the author, the mother of Ansel, a child with muscular dystrophy. I first read her essay of the same name in Best American Essays, and the book delivered a more edgy, tough potrait of the family. Admirable, credible, and hopeful, the mother is one tough customer, and so is her son. That is the key to surviving and thriving despite the woes of this debilitating, chronic illness. Ansel and his mom (and dad, and siblings) are a real family, in the best sense of the word. ...I was curious and did read it. And I am very glad that I did. You are a very strong person and have been both a great mother and great friend for Ansel. I was touched and moved by how honestly you expressed your ongoing thoughts and feelings towards the disease and the struggle to deal with it as a mother, a wife and a friend. Indeed it is sad that Ansel or anyone for that matter has to suffer such an illness in life, but not everyone is as lucky to have a mother as strong, defiant and loyal as you, who has such a powerful means of expressing herself through writing. Your whole family must be very proud of you, especially Ansel. I am also impressed by your observations and descriptions of Ansel and how brave and strong he has been all of his life....Ansel is an optimistic skeptic, and brave at that (his will not to give up, I noticed, was something he inherited from you). Many of us, including myself, can learn from someone like him. And in the words of Ansel, "everything happens for a reason." Moonrise is a powerful book, beautifully written, full of forceful oppositions-health and disability, despair and joy, science and poetry. Were it a writer's imagined construct, it might be considered too calculated, too balanced between the life forces we control and those that control us. However, Moonrise is not a novel, rather a book that recalls the truism that life can be stranger than fiction. Penny Wolfson has written from the depths of her own experience a perfect parable, an inspiring story of the life of her son Ansel, rich in humor, strikingly full of unnerving Dantean imagery, and imbued with tremendous pathos. Though ostensibly concerned with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, Moonrise is actually a story about the condition of life and its inherent struggles, speaks to anyone who ponders the eternal mysteries of why we live and how we live. In addition to describing the sobering details of genetic determinism and the wrenching realities of watching a child's body degenerate, Wolfson analyses and celebrates family and all its myriad complexities.
	Modern Microbial Genetics
	By: Uldis N. Streips, Ronald E. Yasbin ISBN: 0471386650 Publisher: Wiley-Liss Release Date: 07 February, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1371236	"..provide a clear prospective, often laced with insight and enthusiasm...an informative and very browseable addition to the lab bookshelf..." (Microbiology Today)
	Introduction to Genetic Analysis, Solutions MegaManual & Exploring Genomes
	By: Anthony J.F. Griffiths, Susan R. Wessler, Richard C. Lewontin, William M. Gelbart, David T. Suzuki, Jeffrey H. Miller, William Fixsen, Diane K. Lavett, Paul G. Young ISBN: 0716762021 Publisher: W. H. Freeman Release Date: 23 May, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 1482265
	Introduction to Statistical Methods in Modern Genetics (Asian Mathematics Series)
	By: M.C. Yang ISBN: 9056991345 Publisher: CRC Release Date: 23 February, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 1449752	Mark Yang is a University of Florida Professor of Statistics. He has a strong engineering background and good training in biology and biochemistry. This interest led him to a careful understanding of the subject and the modern methods that are employed which rely more and more on statistics.<p>What is particularly nice about the book is its simplicity. The study of genetics can be very complicated. Also various useful statistical tools including Markov chain Monte Carlo, bootstrap methods, the EM algorithm and multiple comparisons can be complex as well. But Professor Yang is careful to extract only the essentials to make both the statistics and teh genetics understandable to the layperson.<p>On the statistical side the emphasis is on the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and the likeihood equations in pedigree analysis. Rather than go through complicated Markov Chain theory to demonstrate the equilibrium result Professor Yang demonstrates using simple conditional probabilities. This approach works because the convergence occurs exactly after two steps.<p>For the benefit of the statistician who knows nothing about genetics Chapter 1 is a primer on molecular genetics that gives the essential to understand recombinant methods, recombination fraction, the Haldane distance mapping function, linkage, RFLP and PCR techniques needed for subsequent chapters.<p>Most of the work in genetic inference involves calcualting the formula for the likelihood equations. This involves basic discrete probability calculations and combinatorics for the main part.<p>Once we learn the basics we are ready to understand gentic fingerprinting which is used to establish paternity or identify criminals.<p>The book has interesting examples and exercises and many good references. The only major drawback to the book is that it does not cover microarray analysis.<p>However, I recently took a short course from Dr. Yang based on this book. In the course he spent a great deal of time on microarray technology by supplementing the text with some notes on microarrays and a recent paper he published on the reliabiity on the technique. The text certainly gives the reader the proper background for microarray analysis or other genetic developments.
	Clinical Cancer Genetics: Risk Counseling and Management
	By: Kenneth Offit ISBN: 0471146552 Publisher: Wiley-Liss Release Date: 02 January, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 1083334
	Population Genetics: Principles and Practices for Fisheries Scientists
	By: Eric Hallerman ISBN: 1888569271 Publisher: American Fisheries Society Release Date: June, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1560124
	Genetic Systems Programming: Theory and Experiences (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
	By: Nadia Nedjah, Ajith Abraham, Luiza de Macedo Mourelle ISBN: 3540298495 Publisher: Springer Release Date: April, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 1505645
	Introduction to Genetic Principles
	By: David R Hyde ISBN: 0073224812 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Release Date: 11 January, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 1677965
	Natural Eating : Eating in Harmony with Our Genetic Programming
	By: Geoff Bond ISBN: 1580000541 Publisher: Griffin Publishing Release Date: 01 March, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 1285657	I can honestly say that reading this book has helped me gain an insight into how our bodies use food as fuel and in turn the impacts on health. It is not just a dietary treatise.<p>A book like this is always going to raise some hackles and send <br>others into denial. Such a case is an earlier review by Stephen Byrnes. He has fallen into a number of classic errors including that of thinking that, just because milk is right for babies, it is also right for weaned humans. <br>The reality is that babies have different digestive arrangements, different biochemistry - and different nutritional needs, particularly while they are building brains.<p>If milk is so marevllous why do we gain weight on it? why do some folk have out and out allergies and cannot assimilate dairy products of any sort? this book at least approaches this scientifically, but is explained in laymans terms. Go ahead, change your life! Mr. Bond claims to be writing a treatise on "nutritional anthropology" and how our paleolithic ancestors ate. While some of his information is on the mark (eliminate refined sugars, white bread, etc), he lacks a basic understanding of lipids (fats and oils) and his section on Fats/Oils is horrendous and filled with errors. Like Loren Cordain and Boyd Eaton, Bond unjustifiably demonizes saturated fats and makes the outrageous claim that saturated fats cause vitamin F deficiency and that the human body is not designed to eat saturated fats. Hmmmm, considering that human breast milk is over 50% saturated fat, this statement is hard to swallow!<p>Despite his claim to be teaching a "paleolithic diet," Bond includes such non-paleo foods as legumes and whole grains (in measured amounts), but denounces dairy foods. Why the double-standard??<p>Lastly, his bibliography is extensive, but he does not have any footnotes to match the references with his claims, making it a poor work in terms of scholarship.<p>You're better off getting Allan and Lutz' book "Life Without Bread" if you want to learn about "native nutrition." There is a lot of information about nutrition and proper diet on the market and I find it all very confusing and contradictory. Natural Eating, it seems, is the culmination of Geoff Bond's entire life's work studying how peoples all over the world eat and stay healthy. <p>When I put into practice just one of the suggestions, I lost 5 pounds. Weight loss was not my aim, but I suppose the body just starts letting go of excess when it is getting fed properly. When I put into place 5 or 6 principles, I lost another 5 pounds, and started waking up earlier naturally. I no longer craved food, I had a breakthrough in my hypoglycemia and I felt as though I was working with the rhythms of my body instead of always fighting against. <p>I think most importantly, the author gives you the history/foundation/science of his findings based on years of travel all over the world, studying primitive and modern cultures in thriving and ailing countries. In a nutshell, he studies the way the human being is built (shape of teeth, hands, digestive system) and derives what eating patterns fit us as a species. It's fascinating to consider that we are built to eat fruit partly because our hands are built to pick a piece from the tree, our teeth are shaped to cut through a carrot and so forth. The information is sound and useful. The recipe suggestions are excellent. The lists of foods are organized and easy to put into your kitchen immediately.<p>I wholeheartedly recommend this book. It has altered the way I fuel my body.
	The Genetics of Human Populations
	By: L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, W. F. Bodmer ISBN: 0486406938 Publisher: Dover Publications Release Date: 16 February, 1999 Bioscience book rank: 1190940	This Dover reprint of the classic human population genetics 1970's text, originally published by Freeman, will be welcome. Though factually dated by the ensuing 30 years of molecular genetic data, this remains a superb introduction to basic mathematical theory. I've used it in a grad course, and students really enjoyed it.