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Molecular biology --- 575.116.12 --- 577.21 --- Recombinant DNA --- -rDNA --- DNA --- Genetic engineering --- Genetic recombination --- Genetic vectors --- Gene recombination. Crossing over --- Molecular mechanism of coding, storage and realization of inheritance information. Molecular genetics. Molecular biology of the gene --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- -Gene recombination. Crossing over --- 577.21 Molecular mechanism of coding, storage and realization of inheritance information. Molecular genetics. Molecular biology of the gene --- 575.116.12 Gene recombination. Crossing over --- -577.21 Molecular mechanism of coding, storage and realization of inheritance information. Molecular genetics. Molecular biology of the gene --- rDNA --- DNA, Recombinant --- Ethics, Medical. --- Genetic Engineering --- Medical Ethics --- Medicine --- Professionalism --- Bioethics --- History. --- ethics --- Génétique --- Génétique --- Desoxyribonucleique, acide

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DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science behind how DNA ancestry tests work is mystifying and difficult for the general public to interpret and understand. In this accessible and engaging book, Sheldon Krimsky, a leading researcher, investigates the methods that different companies use for DNA ancestry testing. He also discusses what the tests are used for, from their application in criminal investigations to discovering missing relatives. With a lack of transparency from companies in sharing their data, absent validation of methods by independent scientists, and currently no agreed-upon standards of accuracy, this book also examines the ethical issues behind genetic genealogy testing, including concerns surrounding data privacy and security. It demystifies the art and science of DNA ancestry testing for the general reader.

Genetic genealogy --- DNA and genealogy --- DNA genealogy --- DNA in genealogy --- Genetics and genealogy --- Genetics in genealogy --- Genealogy --- 575.3 --- 575.3 Molecular genetics --- Molecular genetics --- Genetic genealogy.

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Sociological theory building --- Methods in social research (general) --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Social psychology --- Risk --- Sociological aspects --- Congresses.

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Criminal investigation --- DNA data banks --- Evidence, Criminal

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Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer's, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific endeavor. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about how DNA actually contributes to human development. The concept of the gene has been steadily revised since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. No longer viewed by scientists as the cell's fixed set of master molecules, genes and DNA are seen as a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. Rather than an autonomous predictor of disease, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the environment and functions differently as we age. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Emphasizing relatively new understandings of genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance, the authors put into a broad developmental context the role genes are known to play in disease, behavior, evolution, and cognition. Rather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand, Krimsky and Gruber ask why it persists despite opposing scientific evidence, how it influences attitudes about human behavior, and how it figures in the politics of research funding.

Genetics. --- Biology --- Embryology --- Mendel's law --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Breeding --- Chromosomes --- Heredity --- Mutation (Biology) --- Variation (Biology) --- Genetic Determinism. --- Genetic Phenomena. --- Interdisciplinary Communication.