When a gene makes you smell like a fish-- and other tales about the genes in your body
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- When a gene makes you smell like a fish
- It takes two to tango
- The first gene
- Phenylketonuria and the first genetic test
- Maple syrup urine
- The Tangier Island gene
- The Celtic curse
- Metallic madness
- Just one bad apple--
- The long stretch gene
- The Dracula gene
- The expandable gene
- You can blame it on mom
- The gene that launched a revolution
- The fragile X
- The werewolf gene
- The cue ball gene
- Leaving an imprint
- Whither mom or dad gene
- The calico cat gene
- When a gene won't silence
- Just a little piece of the puzzle
- Speaking with a "forked tongue"
- The cheeseburger gene
- The bitter gene, or the battle over broccoli
- The Schwarzenegger gene: from mighty mice to hulking human
- A performance gene
- An aging gene
- In the beginning--
- The cut-and-paste genes
- Jomon genes
- Survivors' benefit
- The pregnancy genes
- The "got milk?" gene
- Innate sensing genes
- The sidedness genes
- Epilogue: snippets of information reveal the whole?
- Appendix: a genetics primer.