Your Genes, Your Health and Personalised Medicine
RC Michaelis & KM Sweet
ISBN: 9781907284168
Genetics insight unlocks health secrets
The world of genetics is today laid bare, putting essential knowledge into the hands of consumers and patients. "Your Genes, Your Health and Personalised Medicine" (Nottingham University Press) not only explains the subject in plain language, but gives information which can be used daily, and to make major health decisions.
In 152 packed pages, genetics lecturers Ron Michaelis, Western Carolina University, and Kevin Sweet, Ohio Statue University, advise:
- How genes affect our health, including diet, environment and lifestyle
- How to draw a genetic family tree, and identify genetic risks from relatives, close and distant
- Assessing the risks from specific ailments, including cancer and heart disease
- How to use genetic testing to maintain and personalise health, now and into the future
- The value of genetic testing, and assessing the findings
The authors have previously written on the applications of genetics for the legal profession and doctors, and now want to the public to know how it affects them; the current state of understanding; and where the science is going.
Ron Michaelis said: "Advances in genetics are revolutionising our approach to health and medicine, starting with our family tree, so we advise readers how to approach this in an informed way, including the patterns of inheritance, and risks among multiple children.
But while we inherit our genes, our lives are by no means mapped out from birth. Genes are affected by our lifestyles, our environment – so how can we shape our futures?"
And when things do go wrong, can genetic testing help? What are its opportunities, and limitations - and how can people see beyond the advertising claims?"
The book argues that everyone is truly individual, so why shouldn't our medicine be individual?
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