Gene Expression and Its Discontents The Social Production of Chronic Disease /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Wallace, Rodrick (Συγγραφέας), Wallace, Deborah (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Bioinformatics.; Biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Biochemistry, general.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Public Health.

A cognitive paradigm for gene expression, via the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory, allows better understanding of how embedding context affects the development of organisms. In sum, epigenetic information sources act as tunable catalysts, directing ontogeny into characteristic pathwa...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Models of development
• Groupoid symmetries
• Epigenetic catalysis
• Developmental disorders
• An interim perspective
• The obesity pandemic in the US
• Coronary heart disease in the US
• Cancer: a developmental perspective
• Autoimmune disorders
• Demoralization and obesity in Upper Manhattan
• Death at an early age: AIDS and related mortality in New York City
• Final thoughts
• Mathematical appendix
• References.