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I N D E X

ADA, 249 Asquith, Herbert, 294

Affymetrix, 267 asthma, 66-75

ageing, 196—205 Austad, Steven, 201—2

AIDS, 124-5, 265, 267—9 Avery, Oswald, 14-15

Alkaptonuria, 39, 52, 71 Avery, Roy, 14

Allison, Anthony, 141 Ayer, A. J., 313

Altman, Sidney, 18

Alzheimer's disease: baboon, 154-60

A P O - E 4 association with, 261-8 Bailey, Michael, 118

inheritance of, 54, 59, 273, 309 Bakewell, Robert, 272

American Lung Association, 68, 73 Baldwin, James Mark, 220-22, 230

Ames, Bruce, 233-4 Balfour, Arthur, 293

Amnion's horn, 227-8 Bateson, William, 39, 4 5 - 6 , 174

Amos, William, 111, 112 BCG, 69

Anderson, French, 248-9 Beadle, George, 47

Anderson, Gerry, 293 Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, 210

Angelman, Harry, 207-8 Bede, Venerable, 35

Angelman syndrome, 212-4 bell curve, The (R. J. Herrnstein, C.

apoptosis, 238-42 Murray), 86

Apple, 181 Belloc, Hilaire, 293

Applied Biosystems, 245 Bell Telephone Company, 155

Ardipithecus skeleton, 30 Berg, Paul, 244, 261

Aristode, 13, 16, 174, 184 Bickerton, Derek, 94-5

Ashkenazi Jews, 191-2 Binet, Alfred, 78, 88

Ashworth, Dawn, 132-3 Biogen, 245

338 G E N O M E

Blackburn, Elizabeth, 197 Cech, Thomas, 18

Blaese, Michael, 248—9 Cecil, Lord Robert, 295

Blanchard, Ray, 119 Celera, 246

Blanchflower, Danny, 266 cerebellar ataxia, 59

blood groups, 156—47 Cetus, 245

Blunt, Wilfred Scawen, 294 Chagas' disease, 157

BMP4, 179 Chaplin, Charlie, 136

Boas, Franz, 92 Chesterton, G. K., 293

Boer War (1899-1902), 288 chimpanzee, 24, 27-37, 127

Borna disease, 143 Chomsky, Noam, 9 2 - 3 , 103

Bouchard, Thomas, 82 chronic fatigue syndrome see ME

Bowman Gray Medical School, North Churchill, Winston, 294

Carolina, 170 Cline, Martin, 247

Brave new world (Aldous Huxley), 303 Clinique Medicale (Armand Trousseau), breast cancer see cancer 67