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Genoom : het recept voor een mens.
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ISBN: 9025495842 Year: 1999 Publisher: Amsterdam Contact

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In het genoom, de verzamelde genetische informatie van een levend wezen, liggen de antwoorden op vragen als: wat bepaalt de groei en de ontwikkeling van een organisme? Waarom wordt het lichaam oud en sterft het? In hoeverre zijn ons gedrag en persoonlijkheid genetisch bepaald? Zit ons bewustzijn in het DNA besloten? De kennis van het genoom van de mens houdt in dat daarmee letterlijk het recept voor een mens bekend zal zijn. Dit zal het beeld van onszelf voorgoed veranderen. Matt Ridley legt in dit boek uit wat het onderzoek naar het genoom inhoudt, en ook welke gevaren er zijn. Hij geeft ook inzicht in de functie van verschillende genen en hoe ze werken.

Human molecular genetics
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ISBN: 0582322669 9780582322660 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Prentice-Hall

Genes and morality : new essays
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ISBN: 904200696X 9004433589 Year: 1999 Volume: 83 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Atlanta, Georgia : Rodopi,

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Most public discussion has focused on those effects of genetic research that are considered in some way unwanted or unpleasant. For example, there has been much debate concerning the risks and the ethical appropriateness of genetic screening, gene therapy, and agricultural applications based on genetic techniques. It often claimed that genetic research may cause new problems such as genetic discrimination, stigmatization, environmental risks, or mistreatment of animals. Genes and Morality: New Essays adopts a critical attitude toward genetic research, on both a theoretical and a practical level. It presents some of the most important problems in the ethics of genetic engineering, including the questions of genetic health and disease, genetic testing, responsibility for health, patenting non-human and human life, and problems related to the disclosure of genetic information. The aim of the book is to focus on real ethical and conceptual issues. Consider, for instance, the concept of genetic disease. As one of the contributors, Ingmar Prn, writes, fear of genetic disease, or anxiety, is not itself a disease any more than fear of becoming unemployed is a disease. Alleviating such emotions is not a medical task to be discharged by drug therapy. The book also examines the philosophical foundations of these issues by discussing the most influential bioethical theories of today, including utilitarianism and principlism.


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Human genomics.
ISSN: 14797364 Year: 2003 Publisher: [London] : [London] : Henry Stewart Publications, BioMed Central


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Human molecular genetics
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ISBN: 9780815345893 9780367002503 0367002507 0815345895 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York Garland Science

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This work provides guidance on the principles underlying modern human molecular genetics. This new edition has been updated to take account of the changes in our understanding of this field since the late 1990s.


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The human recipe
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ISBN: 9461661967 9789461661968 9789462700727 9462700729 Year: 2016 Publisher: Belgium

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Human genetics is not the playground of science alone. Genetics concerns all of us, for we all have DNA, genes, genomes, and chromosomes. Our genes determine partly our appearance and our behaviour, our talents and our health risks.The authors of The Human Recipe use humour to explain what we understand about human genetics. With anecdotes and topical examples, they demonstrate how genetics affects our everyday lives. What if a DNA analysis were to reveal that your biological father must be someone other than the person you’ve been calling “Dad” for years? Does genetics explain why Africans excel in athletics, Asians in gymnastics, and Europeans mainly in sports testing physical strengths? What is the difference between a genetic disease and a contagious illness?The newest developments in human genetics also raise ethical questions and issues which are currently being debated within the genetics community, and the authors do not avoid looking at these either. Should we use genetics to ensure the conception of healthy children or even “designer babies”? Should we identify genetic risks before pregnancy? Should we edit genes in embryos? Can we identify our risk for cancers and can we prevent them? What about privacy in DNA research and forensic databases? Can DNA be stolen, and if so, would this be considered a serious crime? The Human Recipe provides a clever insight into all you might want to know about human genetics in our current society.


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Genome research.
ISSN: 15495469 10889051 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Genomes --- Gene mapping --- Nucleotide sequence --- Genetic Techniques. --- Genetics. --- Genome. --- Génomes --- Cartes chromosomiques --- Génome humain --- Réaction en chaîne de la polymérase --- Génétique humaine --- Génétique --- Gene mapping. --- Genomes. --- Nucleotide sequence. --- Séquençage --- Aspect moral --- Technique --- Analysis, Nucleic acid sequence --- Analysis, Nucleotide sequence --- Base sequence (Nucleic acids) --- DNA sequence --- Nucleic acid sequence analysis --- Nucleotide sequence analysis --- RNA sequence --- Sequence, Nucleotide --- Chromosome mapping --- Genetic mapping --- Genome mapping --- Linkage mapping (Genetics) --- Mapping, Gene --- Genetic Technic --- Genetic Technics --- Genetic Technique --- Technic, Genetic --- Technics, Genetic --- Technique, Genetic --- Techniques, Genetic --- Genetics --- methods --- Genes --- Proteome --- Nucleic acids --- Nucleotides --- Sequence alignment (Bioinformatics) --- Genetic Structures --- Genetic Phenomena --- Genomics --- Haploidy --- Genetic Counseling --- Analysis --- Polymerase chain reaction --- Human genetics --- Genetic Techniques --- Genome --- Génomes. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Technique. --- Biology --- Embryology --- Mendel's law --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Breeding --- Chromosomes --- Heredity --- Mutation (Biology) --- Variation (Biology) --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Chain reaction, Polymerase --- PCR (Biochemistry) --- Polymerization --- DNA polymerases --- Polymerase chain reaction. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Internet access

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