Citing revolutionary changes in the past decade in the way the field of genetics is practiced, the way studies are organized, the technologies that have emerged, and the integration with bioinformatics, Gibson finds that students tend to be more comfortable with Perl and Python than they are with plasmids and pedigrees. He aims to provide an overview of many of the current trends. Sixteen chapters are divided in three parts: foundations; tools; diseases. Chapters are: conceptual foundations; the human genome; human evolution; normal variation; personalized genomics; genome-wide association studies; whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing; gene expression profiling; the epigenome; integrative genomics; immune-related disease; metabolic disease; cardiovascular disease; cancer genetics; neurological and psychiatric disorders; genetics of aging. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)