Suggested Reading – Chapter 12
DVD
NOVA: Cracking the Code of Life (WGBH Boston, 2001)
Cracking the Ocean Code (starring J. Craig Venter) (Discovery Communications, Inc.)
Articles and Chapters
“It’s in our genes. So what? DNA takes you only so far” by Sharon Begley, in Newsweek,
December 7, 2009, p. 36.
“Current-generation high-throughput sequencing: deepening insights into mammalian
transcriptomes” by B. J. Blencowe, S. Ahmad, and L. J. Lee in Genes & Development,
2009; 23(12):1379–86.
“Beyond genome-wide association studies: Genetic heterogeneity and individual
predisposition to cancer” by A. Galvan, J. P. Ioannidis, and T. A. Dragani in Trends in
Genetics, 2010; 26(3):132–41. Epub 2010 Jan 26.
“The Great Human Migration: Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago
to colonize the world” by Guy Gugliotta in Smithsonian Magazine, July 2008.
“Whole-genome sequencing in a patient with Charcot–Marie–Tooth neuropathy” by J. R.
Lupski et al. in New England Journal of Medicine, 2010; 362:1181–91.
“RNA world – the dark matter of evolutionary genomics” by P. Michalak in Journal of
Evolutionary Biology, 2006;19(6):1768–74.
“HapMap and mapping genes for cardiovascular disease” by Kiran Musunuru and Sekar
Kathiresan in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, 2008; 1; 66–71.
“How to make a Dodo: Biologist Beth Shapiro has figured out a recipe for success in the
field of ancient DNA research” by Andrew Curry in Smithsonian Magazine, October
2007.
“Darwin’s surprise” by Michael Specter in The New Yorker, December, 2007, pp. 65–73.
“A Planck walk” by Stephen Pincock in The Scientist, 2008; 22:46.
“Lessons learnt from large-scale exon re-sequencing of the X chromosome” by F. L.
Raymond, A. Whibley, M. R. Stratton, and J. Gecz in Human Molecular Genetics, 2009;
18(R1):R60–4.
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“The 2% difference: Now that scientists have decoded the chimpanzee genome, we know
that 98 percent of our DNA is the same. So how can we be so different?” by Robert
Sapolsky in Discover Magazine , April 2006.
“Mice and humans with same anxietyrelated gene abnormality behave similarly” in
ScienceDaily (January
19, 2010; www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100114153002.htm .
“Genes from Ebola virus family found in human genome” in Scientific American, July
30, 2010.
“The human genome: Big advances, many questions” by Steve Sternberg in USA Today,
July 7, 2010.
“A decade later, genetic map yields few new cures” by Nicholas Wade in New York
Times , June 12, 2010.
Books
Genomic Disorders: The Genomic Basis of Disease by James R. Lupski and Pawel
Stankiewicz (2006, Humana Press).
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