Response by Steven Rose

By Steven Jacobson , Gerald

The HLA D/DR region of the human major histocompatibility complex encodes a family of highly polymorphic, human "Ia-like" molecules that function as genetic restriction elements in a variety of immune phenomena (1, 2). Correlations have been demonstrated between disease susceptibility and particular HLA D/DR antigens (1, 3, 4). Recent evidence (5-7) has demonstrated a considerable heterogeneity...

Steven Rose The rise of neurogenetic determinism soundings issue 2 Spring 1996

Brain. Europe, always slower to move on such matters, has just belatedly started its own such Decade. And we are even further into the massive international $3 billion-odd exercise known as the Human Genome Programme, the attempt to map, and subsequently to sequence, the entire DNA alphabet of the human chromosomes. (Identifying just what these DNA strands might do, what the genes might mean, i...

A rose by any other name is a different rose.

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