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

• Main Authors: Wallace, Rodrick (Author), Wallace, Deborah (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Subjects: 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...