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THE GENOMICS AGE

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THE GENOMICS AGE

How DNA Technology Is Transforming

the Way We Live and Who We Are

GINA SMITH

AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smith, Gina.

The genomics age : how DNA technology is transforming the way we live and who we are

/ Gina Smith.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-8144-0843-5

1. Genetics—Popular works. 2. Genomics—Popular works. 3. Genetics—Social aspects.

4. Genomics—Social aspects. I. Title.

QH437.S654 2005

2004012595

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