Mapping Fate

New York: Times Books, 1995. AG3 - A 5th printing hardcover book SIGNED by Nancy S. Wexler and Alice Wexter with "With all best wishes for the New Millenium!!, Yours," written on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, crease, and tiny tear on the edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and cracks, light discoloration and shelf wear. A memoir of family, risk, and genetic research. 8.5"x5.75", 307 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Nancy Wexler FRCP is an American geneticist and the Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, best known for her involvement in the discovery of the location of the gene that causes Huntington's disease. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology but instead chose to work in the field of genetics. The daughter of a Huntington's patient, she led a research team into a remote part of Venezuela where the disease is prevalent. She visited the villages of Laguneta, San Luis, and Barranquitas. She obtained samples of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) from a large family with a majority of the members having Huntington's disease. The samples her team collected were instrumental in allowing a global collaborative research group to locate the gene that causes the disease. Wexler participated in the successful effort to create a chromosomal test to identify carriers of Huntington's disease. Her sister, Alice Wexler is three years older, and has her PhD in History and also contributed to the field of Huntington's. Nancy Wexler and the rest of the Wexler family feature prominently in Alice's book, Mapping Fate -A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research that describes how the Wexlers coped with an affected mother while simultaneously trying to spearhead HD research. Alice Wexler is now working on a new book on the social history of HD. . Signed by Author. 5th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.