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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 BASICS OF DNA, CHROMOSOMES, CELLS, DEVELOPMENT AND INHERITANCE
1.Basic Principles Of Nucleic Acid Structure And Gene Expression
1.1.Composition of nucleic acids and polypeptides
1.2.Base pairing in DNA and RNA, the double helix, and DNA replication
1.3.RNA transcription and gene expression
1.4.RNA processing
1.5.Translation, post-translational processing, and protein structure
Summary
Further reading
2.Fundamentals Of Cells And Chromosomes
2.1.Cell structure and diversity, and cell evolution
2.2.DNA and chromosome copy number during the cell cycle
2.3.Cell division and transmission of DNA to daughter cells
2.4.Structure and function of chromosomes
3.Fundamentals Of Cell-Cell Interactions And Immune System Biology
3.1.Principles of cell signaling
3.2.Cell proliferation and programmed cell death
3.3.Cell adhesion and tissue formation
Contents note continued: 3.4.Immune system biology
4.Aspects Of Early Mammalian Development, Cell Differentiation, And Stem Cells
4.1.Cell lineages and tissue differentiation in early mammalian development
4.2.Stem cells and cell differentiation
5.Patterns Of Inheritance
5.1.Monogenic versus multifactorial inheritance
5.2.Mendelian pedigree patterns
5.3.Mosaicism and new mutations
5.4.Non-Mendelian characters
pt. 2 UNDERSTANDING GENOMES
6.Core Dna Technologies: Amplifying Dna, Nucleic Acid Hybridization, And Dna Sequencing
6.1.Cloning DNA in bacterial cells
6.2.Amplifying DNA by in vitro DNA replication
6.3.Nucleic acid hybridization: principles and uses
6.4.DNA sequencing principles and Sanger dideoxy sequencing
6.5.Massively-parallel DNA sequencing (next-generation sequencing)
Contents note continued: 7.Analyzing The Structure And Expression Of Genes And Genomes
7.1.Genome structure analysis and genome projects
7.2.Basic gene expression analyses
7.3.High-throughput gene expression analyses
7.4.Single-cell genomics
8.Principles Of Genetic Manipulation Of Mammalian Cells
An overview of genome editing, gene silencing, and germ-line transgenesis
8.1.Artificial transfer of genetic material into mammalian cells
8.2.Principles of transgene expression in mammalian cells
8.3.Genome editing using homologous recombination
8.4.Genome editing using programmable site-specific endonucleases
8.5.Gene silencing
8.6.Germ-line transgenesis and transgenic animals
9.Uncovering The Architecture And Workings Of The Human Genome
9.1.An overview of the human genome
9.2.Gene organization and distribution in the human genome
Contents note continued: 9.3.Heterochromatin DNA and transposon repeats
9.4.A start on working out how our genome functions
10.Gene Regulation And The Epigenome
10.1.Chromatin accessibility and conformation
10.2.Histones and other DNA-binding proteins
10.3.Regulation by DNA methylation and noncoding RNAs
10.4.X-inactivation, imprinting, and epigenetic memory
10.5.Making the transcript: promoters and enhancers
10.6.Post-transcriptional regulation
pt. 3 GENETIC VARIATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND SPECIES
11.An Overview Of Human Genetic Variation
11.1.Origins of DNA sequence variation
11.2.DNA repair
11.3.Population genomics and the scale of human genetic variation
11.4.Functional genetic variation and protein variation
11.5.Extraordinary genetic variation in the adaptive immune system
12.Human Population Genetics
Contents note continued: 12.1.Allele frequencies and genotype frequencies: the Hardy-Weinberg relationship
12.2.Haplotype frequencies and linkage disequilibrium
12.3.Changing allele frequencies
12.4.Population structure and inbreeding
13.Comparative Genomics And Genome Evolution
13.1.Comparative genomics
13.2.Gene duplication, species differences in gene number, and evolutionary advantages of exons
13.3.Evolution of mammalian chromosomes
13.4.Regulatory sequence evolution and transposon origins of functional sequences
13.5.Phylogenetics and our place in the tree of life
14.Human Evolution
14.1.Human origins
14.2.Human evolutionary history from genome sequences
14.3.Inferring female and male histories using mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome
14.4.Health consequences of our evolutionary history
pt. 4 HUMAN GENETIC DISEASE
Contents note continued: 15.Chromosomal Abnormalities And Structural Variants
15.1.Studying human chromosomes
15.2.Gross chromosome abnormalities
15.3.Structural variants, microdeletions, and microduplications
16.Molecular Pathology: Connecting Phenotypes To Genotypes
16.1.Loss of function
16.2.Gain of function
16.3.Dynamic mutations: unstable repeat expansions
16.4.Molecular pathology of mitochondrial disorders
16.5.Genotype-phenotype correlations
17.Mapping And Identifying Genes For Monogenic Disorders
17.1.Positional cloning seeks to identify disease genes by first mapping them to a precise chromosomal location
17.2.Haplotype sharing and autozygosity
17.3.Whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing allow an unbiased and hypothesis-free approach to identifying the cause of a monogenic condition
17.4.Strategies for exome-based disease-gene identification
Contents note continued: 17.5.Confirming that the candidate gene is the correct one
18.COMPLEX DISEASE: IDENTIFYING SUSCEPTIBILITY FACTORS AND UNDERSTANDING PATHOGENESIS
Introduction
18.1.Investigation of complex disease: epidemiological approaches
18.2.Investigation of complex disease using linkage
18.3.Investigation of complex disease using association
18.4.The limitations of genome-wide association studies
18.5.What have we learned about the genetics of complex characters?
19.Cancer Genetics And Genomics
19.1.Oncogenes
19.2.Tumor suppressor genes
19.3.Key oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes work mainly to regulate cell cycle checkpoints and genome maintenance
19.4.A genome-wide view of cancer
19.5.Using our new understanding of cancer
pt. 5 APPLIED HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
20.Genetic Testing In Healthcare And The Law
Contents note continued: 20.1.What to test and why
20.2.Testing for a specific genetic variant
20.3.Clinical diagnostic testing
20.4.Population screening
20.5.Pharmacogenetics and personalized medicine
20.6.DNA forensics: identifying individuals and relationships
21.Model Organisms And Modeling Disease
21.1.An overview of model organisms
21.2.Cellular disease models
21.3.Origins of animal models of genetic disorders
21.4.How useful are animal models of genetic disorders?
22.Genetic Approaches To Treating Disease
22.1.An overview of treating genetic disease and of genetic treatment of disease
22.2.Treating disease with genetically-engineered therapeutic proteins
22.3.Basic principles of gene therapy and RNA therapeutics
22.4.The practice of gene augmentation therapy for treating recessively inherited disorders
Contents note continued: 22.5.RNA therapeutics, therapeutic genome editing prospects, and genetic approaches to preventing disease
Further reading.

Summary:

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.