Dressmaker''s Mirror - Sudden Death, Genetics, and a Jewish Family''s Secret

A narrative that is equal parts genetic and family detective story, geneticist Susan W. Liebman chronicles the sorrows that a deadly mutation caused in her family as well as how she discovered the killer: a new heart disease gene mutation that affects 1 in 800 Ashkenazi Jews.

About the author

Susan Weiss Liebman, PhD, was among MIT's first undergraduate female students. Upon completion of graduate and post-doctoral work she became a biology professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There she taught undergraduate and graduate genetics for thirty-four years while leading a well-funded research group in molecular genetics and raising two children with her husband. When her niece died suddenly at age thirty-six, Liebman became a medical detective. As a result, she is now a strong advocate for genetic testing.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Weiss Liebman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781538196809
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9680-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Diseases, Memoirs, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Genetics (non-medical), Hereditary diseases & disorders, Hereditary diseases and disorders, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs