Heart Genomics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jiang, Hong (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Liu, Ming (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Translational Bioinformatics, 16
• Subjects: Human genetics.; Molecular biology.; Cardiology.; Human Genetics.; Molecular Medicine.

This book elucidates how advances in genomics research are being applied in connection with heart diseases. It describes the development of genome-scale technologies and their applications to all areas of cardiac investigations, such as genomics, functional genomics, epigenomics, etc., and how they...

Table of Contents:

• Genome-wide association studies of hypertension and several other cardiovascular diseases
• Cardiac transcriptome profile in heart diseases
• The Emerging Role of Epigenetics
• Mitochondria Genome Mutations and Cardiovascular Diseases
• GATA Transcription Factors and Cardiovascular Disease
• The Genetic Paradigm of WT1 Gene in Heart Development and Cardiac Repair
• Progress of genomics in hypertension-cardiac hypertrophy
• Progress of genomics in atherosclerosis-coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction
• Progress of genomics in cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders
• Progress of epigenetic changes in heart failure
• Progress of genetics in inherited cardiomyopathies-induced heart failure
• Warfarin and its pharmacogenomic study
• Gene therapy and genomic application in heart disease.