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: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Bioinformatics.; Biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Biochemistry, general.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Public Health.

This book describes how epigenetic context, in a large sense, affects gene expression and the development of an organism, using the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to construct statistical models useful in data analysis. The approach allows deep understanding of how embedding context...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• 1. Toward new tools
• 2. Models of development
• 3. Groupoid symmetries
• 4. Epigenetic catalysis
• 5. Developmental disorders
• 6. An interim perspective
• 7. The obesity pandemic in the US
• 8. Coronary heart disease in the US. - 9. Cancer: a developmental perspective
• 10. Autoimmune disorders
• 11. Demoralization and obesity in Upper Manhattan
• 12. Death at an early age: AIDS and related mortality in New York City
• 13. Mental Disorders I: Western atomism and its culture-bound syndromes
• 14. Mental Disorders II: Psychopathology and sleep
• 15. Diabetes and Thyroid Cancer in Manhattan's Chinatown
• 16. Right-To-Work Laws and Alzheimer's Disease
• 17. Stress as an Environmental Exposure
• 18. Final Thoughts
• 19. Mathematical Appendix.