Mapping fate : a memoir of family, risk, and genetic research / Alice Wexler.
Mapping fate : a memoir of family, risk, and genetic research / Alice Wexler.
Mapping fate : a memoir of family, risk, and genetic research / Alice Wexler.
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Publisher
New York : Times Books : Random House, c1995.
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N362.196851/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxv, 294 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Times Books : Random House, c1995.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1995.
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Summary
In Mapping Fate, Alice Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for a hereditary, incurable, fatal disorder: Huntington's disease, once called Huntington's chorea. That her mother died of the disease, that her own chance of inheriting it was fifty-fifty, that her sister and father directed much of the extraordinary biomedical research to find the...
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Mapping fate : a memoir of family, risk, and genetic research / Alice Wexler.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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N362.196851/1
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74VMBPjP83qO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMBPjP83qO
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ISBN
0812917103 (acid-free paper) :
9780812917109 (acid-free paper) :
DDC
362.1968510092
MMS ID
991002284879702626
