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Volume 331:885 September 29, 1994 Number 13
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From Heredity to Anatomy
The Human Genome Project: Deciphering the Blueprint of Heredity

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Edited by Necia Grant Cooper. 360 pp., illustrated. Mill Valley, Calif., University Science Books, 1994. $38. ISBN 0-935702-29-6.

In The Human Genome Project, the reader gets three books for the price of one. The first (which I will refer to as book A) is a textbook of genetics, presented in sections that cover a broad range of topics, from the history of scientific theories of heredity to basic cell and molecular biology and on to important technological advances in genome research. The second (book B) is a set of transcripts of discussions in which some of the national leaders in the Human Genome Project participated, led by Dr. Robert Moyzis, director of the Human Genome Center at Los . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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