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    <title>Drawing the map of life</title>
    <subTitle>inside the Human Genome Project</subTitle>
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    <namePart>McElheny, Victor K.  (Victor King)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1935-2025</namePart>
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    <publisher>Basic Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2010</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xiii, 361 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Chronicles the race to map the human genome, noting the impact of skeptics in the 1970s and 1980s, the breakthroughs of the 1990s, and the political maelstrom that ensued in the face of corporate involvement and the fight for credit.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Building the toolbox -- Getting started -- Scaling up -- Crisis -- Surprises -- Human variety -- The struggle for medical relevance.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Victor K. McElheny.</note>
  <note>"A Merloyd Lawrence book."</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>History</topic>
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      <namePart>Proyecto Genoma Humano </namePart>
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    <topic>Historia</topic>
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    <topic>Human Genome Project</topic>
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    <topic>Proyecto genoma humano</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Genomics</topic>
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    <topic>Genómica</topic>
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