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100 1 Collins, Francis S.
245 14 The language of life :|bDNA and the revolution in
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|cFrancis S. Collins.
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511 0 Read by Greg Itzin.
520 From New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned
doctor and geneticist Francis Collins, a book that will
forever change how you think about your body, your health,
and the future of medicine. A scientific and medical
revolution has crept up on us, based on study after study,
from hundreds of laboratories around the world. It is no
longer just a theoretical shift: every one of us will be
touched by it, and many of us already have been. The
meaning of disease, our understanding of the human body,
and crucial decisions about what we all need to know and
what choices we make about our health are at stake.
Welcome to the new world of personalized medicine. Twenty-
one million Americans are affected by 6,000 so-called rare
and orphan diseases, many of which are primarily
attributable to misspelled genes. And virtually all
diseases have a significant hereditary component. There
have been many stories in the media about women who are
testing to see if they have a mutation that leads to
breast cancer, or family members who are strongly at risk
for heart disease or Huntington's disease. Yet the
revolution is much more fundamental than this: diabetes,
heart disease, the common cancers, mental illness, asthma,
arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, and more-all of these
diseases are having their secrets unlocked. Now, with a
simple home test, costing a few hundred dollars, you can
learn the secrets of your own DNA. Francis Collins has
been at the forefront of this revolution. He was, for
fifteen years, the head of the international Human Genome
Project, and he now serves as the Director of the National
Institutes of Health. He knows, better than anyone, how
widespread are the misperceptions about human genetics.
Just in the past decade, most of what you think you know
about DNA has been overturned. Much of the advice given
routinely by health care providers is ill informed, so you
need to educate yourself about this rapidly moving area of
medicine. You are guaranteed to face some surprises, and
some difficult choices about personal knowledge, treatment,
and family risk. Yet this book is overwhelmingly hopeful
and inspiring, offering helpful advice in every chapter.
Nearly every day, diseases that were barely understood, or
completely misunderstood, are being redefined. Families
that faced common problems, without hope, are now
discovering a new world of understanding, treatment, and
prevention. You owe it to yourself to learn about your DNA
: how it works, what it reveals, and the benefits and
limits of this new knowledge.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 Genetic screening|vPopular works.
650 0 Medical genetics|vPopular works.
700 1 Itzin, Gregory.
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