Story of gene: Part II – Genetics and genomics

• Main Authors: Pragya Sharma, Soumi Das, Amitabh Biswas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
• Series: Journal of the Practice of Cardiovascular Sciences
• Subjects: Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-Cas; epigenetics; next-generation sequencing; personalized medicine
• Online Access: http://www.j-pcs.org/article.asp?issn=2395-5414;year=2018;volume=4;issue=3;spage=224;epage=232;aulast=Sharma

Living beings are encoded with the genes as a hereditary material and genetics deal with the functional and structural study of these genes. Since its discovery by Mendel, still we are struggling to completely elucidate the world, the gene, and its interactions. From pea plant experiments to human genome, numbers of eminent scientists had given their contributions in understanding the vast galaxy of genetic nodes in the genome. With the DNA technology advancement, in the near future, we may able to understand molecular mechanisms of human body leading to customized medicines termed as personalized medicine. In this article, we had taken further the story of gene part I to extend our acquaintance before human genetics. We had also given special context to Indian scientist making remarkable achievement in the field of genetics and genomics.