The genes we share with yeast, flies, worms, and mice : new clues to human health and disease /

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Imprint:	Chevy Chase, Md. : Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ©2001.
Description:	100 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 1 poster (54 x 41 cm folded to 27 x 21 cm)
Language:	English
Subject:	Genomes -- Popular works. Gene mapping -- Popular works. Human gene mapping -- Popular works. Medical genetics -- Popular works. Genomics -- Popular Works. Genetics -- trends -- Popular Works. Genetics, Medical -- Popular Works. Genome, Human -- Popular Works. Research -- popular works. Gene mapping. Genomes. Human gene mapping. Medical genetics. Popular works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9136556

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Varying Form of Title:	Genes we share
Other authors / contributors:	Pines, Maya. Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Notes:	Cover title. "This is the eighth in a series of reports about biomedical science"--Inside front cover. Editor, Maya Pines--P. 100. committed to retain 20170930 20421213 HathiTrust

Table of Contents:

Discovering what the genes in a living cell do-starting with yeast / by Maya Pines
Unexpected rewards from our similarity to fruit flies / by Gary A. Taubes
The first animal to have its entire genome sequenced: C. elegans / by Maya Pines
Treasures await those who study our closest relative among model organisms: the mouse / by Stephen S. Hall
Shuttling between species to make sense of the human genome / by Maya Pines
Poster: human disease genes that are found in flies, worms, and yeast.

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