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Rodrick Wallace

Gene Expression and Its Discontents

The Social Production of Chronic Disease

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This book describes how epigenetic context, in a large sense, affects gene expression and the development of an organism, using the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to construct statistical models useful in data analysis. The approach allows deep understanding of how embedding context affects development. We find that epigenetic information sources act as tunable catalysts, directing ontogeny into characteristic pathways, a perspective having important implications for epigenetic epidemiology. In sum, environmental stressors can induce a broad spectrum of developmental dysfunctions, and the book explores a number of pandemic ch… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Wallace, Deborah
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-48078-7
  • EAN: 9783319480787
  • Produktnummer: 21893478
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'833 KB
  • Auflage: 2nd ed. 2017

Über den Autor


Rodrick Wallace PhD is a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, received his B.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.. A recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has published many papers adapting quantitative methods from population, community and ecosystem ecology to the theoretical and empirical analysis of problems of public health and public order. Recently he has attempted to adapt methods from information theory to the study of evolutionary process in medical sociology, biology and economics.

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