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Articles and Chapters
“Mapping the cancer genome. Pinpointing the genes involved in cancer will help chart a
new course across the complex landscape of human malignancies” by F. S. Barker and A.
D. Collins in Scientific American, 2007; 296(3):50–7.
“Forming the fly lab: Contributions of A. H. Sturtevant and C. B. Bridges” in Mendel’s
Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics by Elof Axel Carlson (Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory Press, 2004).
“Limb and kidney defects in Lmx1b mutant mice suggest an involvement of LMX1B in
human nail patella syndrome” by H. Chen et al. in Nature Genetics, 1998; 19:51–5.
“Positional cloning moves from perditional to traditional” by Francis Collins in Nature
Genetics, 1995; 9:347–50.
“The search for a gay gene” in The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and
the Biology of Behavior by Dean Hamer (1991, Touchstone).
“Progress toward personalized medicine for glaucoma” by Sayoko Moroi and colleagues
in Expert Review of Ophthalmology, 2009; 4:145–61.
“Dogs” in The Strongest Boy in the World by Philip R. Reilly (Cold Spring Laboratory
Press, 2008).
“Chromosome mapping with DNA markers” by R. White and J. M. Lalouel, in Scientific
American, 1988; 258:40–8.
“Mechanistic insights into Bardet–Biedl syndrome, a model ciliopathy” by Norann A.
Zaghloul and Nicholas Katsanis in Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2009; 119(3):428–
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Books
The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior by
Dean Hamer
(1991, Touchstone).
The Physical Basis of Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (Forgotten Books, reproduction
of the
1919 publication).
The Strongest Boy in the World by Philip R. Reilly (2008, Cold Spring Laboratory Press).
Mapping Fate by Alice Wexler (1996, University of California Press).
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