| Description |
1 online resource (78 p.) |
| Series |
Ideas Roadshow Conversations Ser |
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Ideas Roadshow Conversations Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- The Conversation -- I. James Watson's Legacy -- II. In the Lab -- III. Chromosome 7 -- IV. Back to Basics -- V. Revolutionary Stirrings -- VI. Going Global -- VII. Variability and Evolution -- VIII. Causes and Implications -- IX: Towards Treatment -- X. The Definition of Disease -- XI. Probing Deeper -- XII. Ethical and Societal Issues -- XIII. Future Possibilities -- XIV. Contact with Autism -- XV. Nobel Thoughts -- XVI. The Human Condition -- Continuing the Conversation |
| Summary |
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Stephen Scherer, the GlaxoSmithKline Research Chair in Genome Sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto. Stephen Scherer discusses his lifelong passion for science that culminated in his groundbreaking discovery of copy-number variation. This wide-ranging conversation also covers his exciting work in autism research and how copy number variation brings us a deeper understanding of both human variability and disease.This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, More Things in DNA, H |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Scherer, Stephen W. -- Interviews
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Variation (Biology)
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Autism -- Research
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Autism -- Research
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Variation (Biology)
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781771700535 |
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177170053X |
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1771702788 |
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9781771702782 |
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