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Gene Environment Interactions
Nature and Nurture in the Twenty-first Century
- 1st Edition - January 14, 2020
- Author: Moyra Smith
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 6 1 3 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 7 9 7 - 4
Gene Environment Interactions: Nature and Nurture in the Twenty-first Century offers a rare, synergistic view of ongoing revelations in gene environment interaction studies,… Read more
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Request a sales quoteGene Environment Interactions: Nature and Nurture in the Twenty-first Century offers a rare, synergistic view of ongoing revelations in gene environment interaction studies, drawing together key themes from epigenetics, microbiomics, disease etiology, and toxicology to illuminate pathways for clinical translation and the paradigm shift towards precision medicine. Across eleven chapters, Dr. Smith discusses interactions with the environment, human adaptations to environmental stimuli, pathogen encounters across the centuries, epigenetic modulation of gene expression, transgenerational inheritance, the microbiome’s intrinsic effects on human health, and the gene-environment etiology of cardiovascular, metabolic, psychiatric, behavioral and monogenic disorders.
Later chapters illuminate how our new understanding of gene environment interactions are driving advances in precision medicine and novel treatments. In addition, the book's author shares strategies to support clinical translation of these scientific findings to improve heath literacy among the general population.
- Offers a thorough, interdisciplinary discussion on recent revelations from gene environment interaction studies
- Illuminates environmental factors affecting disease-gene etiology and treatment
- Supports the clinical translation of gene environment interaction findings into novel therapeutics and precision medicine
Human geneticists; human genomicists; translational researchers in medical genetics, genomic medicine, epigenetics, neuroscience, toxicology, public health, and environmental science; life science researchers; developmental biologists; pharmacologists in industry and academia
1. Interacting with the environment receiving and interpreting signals• Sensory receptors, channels• Touch, Hearing, Vision physiological functions and examples of impairments• Recognizing micro-organisms. Immune system, pattern receptors• Conveying signals from the cell surface to the nucleus to modify gene expression• The internal environment, sensing nutrients metabolites and modifying gene expression
2. Environment as Provider• Nutrition and Growth• Genetic factors and height• Requirements for specific minerals e.g. calcium, iron, and related defects• Requirement for other soil components, e.g. iodine and related defects
3. Human Evolution and adaptations to environments and to pathogen encounters• Modern Human and their relationship to archaic humans• Ice-age and its impact on populations• Genomic variations• Introgression of genomic segments from Neanderthal in Modern Human• Brain evolution• Adaptations to pathogen encounters
4. Genetic mechanisms in environmental adaptations • Main mechanisms, variations in gene expression level, epigenetics, mutation• Monogenic and polygenic mechanisms of adaptation• Skin Pigmentation, geographic location, environment, genetic variations• Nutrition variations locations, customs, including adult lactose tolerance• Location, high altitude and adaptations• Adaptations to pathogenic organisms through genetic variation and immune factors
5. Epigenetics and the regulatory genome• Epigenetic processes: DNA and histone modifications• Writers, readers and erasers• Chromatin architecture and remodeling• Linking environment to gene expression through epigenetic pathways • Sensing the Internal Environment: Metabolites and Epigenetic modifications
6. The microbiome: The external life forms within• Culture independent methods of organism classification• The Microbiome in the perinatal period• Microbiome and immune system development• Gut microbiome and metabolite generation• Microbiome and chronic diseases• Microbiome and impact of antibiotic usage
7. Human development, behaviors, impacts of environment and genetic variations• Developmental trajectories in childhood• Environmental exposures and child development• Stress and its impact on child development• Importance for Human Health of Contact with Nature: The Biophilia Hypothesis• Partnerships and interconnections in dealing with challenges
8. Joint Roles of Genes and Environment in etiology of specific diseases• Polygenic risk factors and environmental interactions in causation of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases• Polygenic risk factors and environmental interactions in psychiatric and behaviour disorders• Multiplicity of interactions.• Adapting environments to cope with genetic variations• Adapting nutrition according to metabolic variants present in specific individuals• Adapting use of pharmaceuticals based on specific genetic variants (pharmacogenetics)• Adapting educational processes to cope with differences in abilities in specific areas
9. Personalized Precision Medicine• Genetic variation• Socio-behavioral factors• Health literacy
10. Identifying and mitigating effects of Harmful factors in the Intrinsic or Extrinsic Environment• Oxidative stress• DNA damaging agents• DNA Damage repair
11. Questions relating to climate change• 50. Striving toward solutions to mitigate devastating effect• 51. Dietary changes to benefit health and mitigate climate change• 53. Proposed transformative changes
- No. of pages: 438
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 14, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128196137
- eBook ISBN: 9780128197974
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Moyra Smith
Dr. Moyra Smith is a 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, strong record of publications, active engagement with programs in the Department of Pediatrics, mentoring of graduate students, and involvement with the CART Autism Center at UCI. Dr. Moyra Smith has published more than 100 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Molecular Psychiatry, the Journal of Medical Genetics (JMG), and Cytogenetics Cell Genetics.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita, Department of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USARead Gene Environment Interactions on ScienceDirect