Is it the gene that causes the disease? (The role of genes in common diseases affecting you and your family)

Author: Lai Li
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Some may think that genetic diseases are rare conditions caused by abnormalities in one of the numerous genetic genes (genes are traits in the human body that store genetic information—translator's note) and are generally observed in children. This view might have been accurate 20 years ago (when the first edition of this book was published in 2004—translator's note), but scholars no longer hold this perspective, and simply put, this view is no longer sufficient. The significant progress in our understanding of human genes is reshaping doctors' thinking about the origins of diseases. Today, we know that almost all diseases that trouble humanity are related to the genes we inherit at birth. This book covers the following aspects: pregnancy (infertility, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, etc.), infancy (congenital deformities, newborn genetic testing, etc.), and childhood (cerebral palsy, intellectual developmental delay, autism, etc.).