Journal of Heredity 2003:94(6)
© 2003 The American Genetic Association 94:528-529
Book Review |
Gene Regulation: A Eukaryotic Perspective, 4th Edition
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David Latchman.
Nelson Thomes, Cheltenham, UK. 2002. 368 pp. £30.00.
The 4th edition of David Latchman's book Gene Regulation: A Eukaryotic Perspective is a very methodical presentation of the current knowledge about regulation of gene expression. The book opens with the central question of how organisms generate their diversity of cell and tissue types by differential and combinatorial expression of genes present in an identical genome. It begins by presenting how the abundance of certain proteins produced by each cell type is reflected in the pool of transcription products. From there the author lists the large collection of factors known to influence the initiation of transcription from the
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