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Berdanier, Carolyn D., and James L. Hargrove (eds.). Nutrition and Gene Expression. CRC Press, Boca Raton (FL) 1993.

Lawn, Richard M., and Gordon A. Vehar. "The Molecular Genetics of Hemophilia." Scientific American, March 1986, p. 48. Hemophiliacs bleed because a defective gene deprives them of a key blood-clotting protein. The protein has now been made artificially by isolating the normal gene and then inserting it into cultured cells.

Mange, Elaine J., and Arthur P. Mange. Basic Human Genetics. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland (MA) 1994.

Marion, Robert. Was George Washington Really the Father of Our Country? A Clinical Geneticist Looks at World History. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading (MA) 1994. The influence of genetics on history, from George III to John F. Kennedy.

Necia, Grant C. (ed.). The Human Genome Project. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos (NM) 1992.

Patterson, David. "The Causes of Down Syndrome." Scientific American, August 1987, p. 52. The genes responsible for many of the pathologies associated with the disorder are being identified and mapped to sites on chromosome 21.

Verma, Inder M. "Gene Therapy." Scientific American, November 1990,
p. 68. Treatment of disease by introducing healthy genes into the body is becoming feasible.

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