My Beautiful Genome

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My Beautiful Genome

Author	: Lone Frank
File Size	: 54,7 Mb
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 September 2011
ISBN	: 9781851688647
Pages	: 320 pages

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My Beautiful Genome by Lone Frank Book PDF Summary

Internationally acclaimed science writer Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to provide the first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics. She challenges the business mavericks intent on mapping every baby's genome, ponders the consequences of biological fortune-telling, and prods the psychologists who hope to uncover just how much or how little our environment will matter in the new genetic century - a quest made all the more gripping as Frank considers her family's and her own struggles with depression.

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