Book Details

Retrotransposition, Diversity and the Brain

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-74966-0

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The book results from a fascinating and stimulating exchange of ideas at the interface of the complexity of brain organization and function, the mechanisms for generating diversity and genetic mobility. This meeting of leading geneticists, molecular biologists and neuroscientists was organized by the Fondation IPSEN. Its ambitious goal was to expand the current limits of research in neurobiology not only to the benefit of those interested in the cellular and molecular processes but also for the understanding of high-level cognitive functions and the understanding of complex mental diseases. The reader can judge how far the book achieves this.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, DNA, DNA repair, Telomere, endogenous retroviruses, genes, microcephalies, neuropsychiatric disorders, retrotransposons, telomeres