Health Outcomes in a Foreign Land A Role for Epigenomic and Environ
This stimulating volume uses multiple lenses to analyze the complex causes of health disparities affecting minorities, in particular African Americans, and explains how this knowledge can be used to reduce their destructive effects. Pinpointing genet
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Health Outcomes in a Foreign Land A Role for Epigenomic and Environmental Interaction
Health Outcomes in a Foreign Land
Bernard Kwabi-Addo
Health Outcomes in a Foreign Land A Role for Epigenomic and Environmental Interaction
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Bernard Kwabi-Addo Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Howard University Woodbridge, VA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-55864-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55865-3
ISBN 978-3-319-55865-3
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For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers 1 Chronicles 29:15
This book is dedicated to my mum and dad, Auntie Mary, Ben, Josh, David and Getty for your inspiration, love and support.
Foreword
The twenty-first century landmark sequencing of the 3.1 billion nucleotides in the human genome introduced a new knowledge base in biomedical research and behavioral science for biology, human identity, and population diversity. This is a knowledge base encoded in the DNA sequence of the genome that is as old as the origins of humankind, yet as new as the most recent discoveries now expressed in the epigenome. What’s more, it is knowledge base grounded in the architecture, dynamics, and function of the human genome and epigenome that determines the unique phenotype of the trillions of cells that make-up the human body in health and disease. In this insightful and compelling new book on Health Outcomes in a Foreign Land—A Role for Epigenomic and Environmental Interaction, Dr. Bernard Kwabi-Addo, associate professor of Biochemistry at Howard University College of Med
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