Moyra Smith

The Regulatory Genome in Adaptation, Evolution, Development, and Disease

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Regulatory Genome in Adaptation, Evolution, Development, and Disease synthesizes insights from recent genomic and gene expression studies across organisms, from humans to plants, animals, and single cell life, exploring common roles gene regulation plays in adaptive evolution, developmental biology and susceptibility to disease. The book sheds light on gene regulation across evolutionary timelines, illuminating new areas of focus and future research. Chapters consider key elements in gene expression regulation, fundamentals of genomic alterations over time, and in response to environmental and local conditions, epigenetics in adaptive evolution, and adaptive gene regulation in healthy processes and developmental biology, and in disease biology. Throughout the book, a comparative approach is adopted across organisms to highlight common evolutionary themes and genome diversity revealed by recent sequencing and GWAS studies, as well as how this informs our understanding of human adaptive evolution. The book finishes by detailing how we can use this knowledge to impact disease outcomes and healthy human metabolism, development, and physiology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9780443153525
• ISBN-10: 0443153523
• Artikelnr.: 66226284

Autorenporträt

Dr. Moyra Smith is Professor Emerita in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, College of Health Sciences, at the University of California, Irvine, and in past years has held appointments at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University. In 2017, the UCI Emeriti Association awarded Dr. Smith the UCI Outstanding Emerita Award in recognition of her continuing research on genetics and genomics, her strong record of publications, her active engagement with programs in the Department of Pediatrics, her mentoring of graduate students, and her involvement with the CART Autism Center at UCI. Dr. Moyra Smith has published more than 100 scientific articles in such peer reviewed journals as Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Molecular Psychiatry, the American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics, and the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Progress in determining key elements in regulation of gene
expression 1. Gene regulation in physiological processes 2. Epigenetics,
the nonprotein coding genome, and human accelerated sequences
Part II. Evolution and adaptation 3. Gene expression and regulation
relative to specific tissues and functions 4. Evo-Devo and morphological
diversity 5. Adaptation and evolution 6. Adaptations metabolic and genomic
to environmental changes
Part III. Adaptation 7. Regulatory elements relevant to brain, connectome,
and neurodevelopmental disorders 8. Altered gene expression associated with
developmental defects and disease 9. Metabolic, epigenetic functions and
correlations with phenotype 10. Aging, genomic, mitochondrial, and
regulatory changes
Part IV. Altered gene expression associated with developmental defects and
disease 11. The regulatory genome and defects in monogenic diseases 12.
Epigenetics and human disease 13. Connecting developmental defects and
evolutionary findings 14. The regulatory genome and complex common diseases