Human Genetic Diversity: Functional Consequences for Health and Disease

Awards:   Commended for BMA Medical Book Competition: Basic Sciences Category 2010. Commended for BMA Medical Book Competition: Clinical Sciences Category 2010. Winner of Highly Commended: BMA Medical Book Awards for Basic and Clinical Sciences 2010.
Author:   Julian C. Knight (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199227709


Pages:   504
Publication Date:   06 August 2009
Format:   Paperback
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  • Commended for BMA Medical Book Competition: Basic Sciences Category 2010.
  • Commended for BMA Medical Book Competition: Clinical Sciences Category 2010.
  • Winner of Highly Commended: BMA Medical Book Awards for Basic and Clinical Sciences 2010.

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Author:   Julian C. Knight (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.116kg
ISBN:  

9780199227709


ISBN 10:   0199227705
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   06 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Lessons From Haemoglobin 2: Finding Genes and Specific Genetic Variants Responsible for Disease 3: Cytogenetics and Large Scale Structural Genomic Variation 4: Submicroscopic Structural Variation in Health and Susceptibility to Disease 5: Submicroscopic Structural Variation and Genomic Disorders 6: Segmental Duplications and Indel Polymorphisms 7: Tandem Repeats 8: Mobile DNA Elements 9: SNPs, HapMap and Common Disease 10: Fine Scale Sequence Diversity and Signatures of Selection 11: Genetics of Gene Expression 12: Extreme Diversity in the Major Histocompatibility Complex 13: Parasite Wars 14: Human Genetic Diversity and HIV: Lessons From a War Fought on Many Fronts 15: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions Glossary References Index

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The excellent illustrations, grey coloured boxes containing key information, summaries at the end of chapters and a good glossary all serve to make a difficult subject more accessible...This is an impressive single author book, providing a detailed summary of human genetics * BMA Medical Book Competition 2010 *


The excellent illustrations, grey coloured boxes containing key information, summaries at the end of chapters and a good glossary all serve to make a difficult subject more accessible...This is an impressive single author book, providing a detailed summary of human genetics BMA Medical Book Competition 2010


Author Information

Julian Knight gained a BA from the University of Cambridge in 1989, subsequently qualifying in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1992. Following junior hospital posts in Edinburgh and Newcastle, he did his DPhil at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. In 1999 he began post-doctoral research as an MRC Clinician Scientist in Oxford and Harvard. He has been a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford since 2005 and is an honorary Consultant in Internal Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He was elected fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007 and was awarded the Linacre Medal by the Royal College of Physicians in 2008. His current research programme investigates the functional consequences of genetic variation for genetic variation for gene regulation with a particular interest in immune and infectious disease.

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