Thompson & Thompson Genetics And Genomics in Medicine 9th 2022

by Dr. Quannetta T Edwards (Author), Dr. Ann Maradiegue (Author)

This book intends to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the current progress in the application of genetic and genomic science in the poultry field. The book should prove useful to researchers and students working in related fields.

It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human “races” have a biological reality. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique of how scientific tools have been misused to uphold misguided racial categorizations.

The delivery of genome sequences for most livestock species over the past 10-15 years has generated the potential to revolutionise livestock production globally, by providing farmers with the ability to match individual animals to rapidly changing climates, production systems and markets. Initially, technologies such as marker-assisted selection, functional genomics, gene expression, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics were hailed as technologies with the greatest promise of delivering on that potential. To date, however, their potential for the delivery of practical solutions for livestock farmers is still to be realised, though they do provide supportive evidence of value to other approaches. Gene editing using tools such as CRISPR-Cas9 also show strong promise, but face regulatory hurdles before practical applications can be delivered for use by farmers.

This volume is dedicated to medical genetics and genomics. Among the myriad applications of genomics in medicine, this book depicts a glimpse of the advances achieved that have been leading us to the personalized/precision medicine era.