Genetics From Genes to Genomes

The strength of this integrated approach is that students who complete the book will have a strong command of genetics as it is practiced today by both academic and corporate researchers. These scientists are rapidly changing our understanding of living organisms, including ourselves. Ultimately, this vital research may create the ability to replace or correct detrimental genes--those "inborn errors of metabolism," as researcher Archibald Garrod called them in 1923, as well as the later genetic alterations that lead to the many forms of cancer"