Genomic and Precision Medicine: Principles and Foundations

Genomic and Precision Medicine: Principles and Foundations presents state-of-the-art reviews and essential background knowledge on the human genome, and its biology and regulation, including a current understanding of a variety of areas within the genome sciences that cover sequencing, transcriptomics, proteomics, microbiomics, etc.), critical technologies, and informatics. This volume is an excellent foundation for readers to appreciate the content of the subsequent seven volumes. Presents a comprehensive and up-to-date volume on the basic aspects of the underlying science and technology for this fieldWritten in an introductory style, including succinct commentary and key learning points to provide a primer for readers on essential aspects of this fieldProvides an up-to-date overview on the major technologies underlying genomic and personalized medicine as written by internationally recognized experts INDICE: 1. Organization, Variation and Expression of the Human Genome2. The Functional Genome: Epigenetics and Epigenomics3. Computational and Informatic Approaches4. Population Perspectives on Genome Variation 5. Genome Variation and Complex Disease6. Whole genome sequencing: new technologies, approaches, applications7. Human Genome Variation Discovery via Exome and Whole-Genome Sequencing8. Structural Genomic Variation in the Human Genome9. Transcriptomics and Gene Expression Analysis10. Quantitative Proteomics 11. The Human Microbiome12. Metabolomics13. Gene-Environment Interactions14. Systems Biology and Systems Medicine

• ISBN: 978-0-12-800686-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés