Cooper D.N. Human Gene Evolution

BIOS Scientific Publishers Limited, 1999, 490 p.The story of our evolutionary past is told in our genome sequence. Human Gene Evolution deals with the origins of human genes, describes their structure, function, organisation and expression. The text integrates our emerging knowledge of chromosome and genome st
This volume is divided into three parts. The first, comprising two chapters, is intended to serve as an introduction to the structure, function and evolution of the human genome. The second, containing four chapters, focuses on the evolution of gene structure, organization and expression, the origins of human genes and gene inactivation. The third part, containing the remaining four chapters, discusses the wide range of mutational mechanisms that have created and fashioned extant human genes and fine-tuned their structure, function and expression.