Ricki Lewis

Introducing the 12th edition of my textbook, Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications! It has been a great privilege to chronicle the evolution of human genetics, from an academic subfield of life science and a minor medical specialty to a growing body of knowledge that will affect us all.

The more than a million human genomes sequenced so far reveal that we are much more alike than different, yet those differences among 3 million of our 3.2 billion DNA building blocks hold clues to our variation and diversity.

Complementing and updating my textbook coverage is my steady stream of essays and articles. Read them at my DNA Science blog at Public Library of Science, at Genetic Literacy Project, at Science Trends, and at Medscape Medical News.

RICKI LEWIS is a Ph.D. geneticist, science writer, and genetic counselor. The author of one of the most widely used human genetics textbooks in the world, she's also written the only popular book on gene therapy ("The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It"; St. Martin's Press, 2013) and published thousands of articles. She's also author of the short book Human Genetics: The Basics, and co-author of two human anatomy and physiology textbooks. Follow her popular weekly DNA Science blog at Public Library of Science (blog http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/author/rlewis/), posts at Genetic Literacy Project, and frequent contributions to Medscape Medical News. Follow Ricki Lewis on Twitter (@rickilewis)