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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk At A Time (2011)

by Lone Frank(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1851688331 (ISBN13: 9781851688333)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Oneworld Publications

review 1: After the dry and, to me, uninteresting beginning chapter about tracing one's genetic ancestry, the book got a lot more interesting and I went from dreading reading it to being, at times, quite riveted. (I had chosen it for a book discussion so I was obligated to read it, and read it well.) Genetic research is making new discoveries every day. The field is percolating and many many questions and possibilities (social, ethical, medical, etc) are presented that are juicy ones for discussion. Frank's narration is subtly humorous on occasion as she sits down to interview famous geneticists or tries to reconcile her personal genome, but the real heft of the book is in the studies and stunning revelations about genetics itself.
review 2: Lone Frank is not only a hig... morehly qualified scientist but she also has the ability to make the complex accessible. She put herself forward as a research subject to unravel her own genetic history and predispositions - a courageous move give the family history of depression, mental illness, cancer, alcoholism. This book gathers together what she found out and sets it against knowledge of genetic inheritance across the world stage. It reads like a novel in places but packs in a huge mount of information. A luminous achievement. less

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