Meet the editor

Prof. Dr. Yusuf Tutar is the Head of the Biochemistry Division in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Health Sciences, Turkey and he is also adjunct faculty at the Molecular Oncology Division of Health Sciences Institutes. He obtained his MSc and Ph.D. degrees at Oregon State University and Texas Tech University, respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral studies at Rutgers University Medical School and National Institutes of Health (NIH/

NIDDK), USA. Dr. Tutar's research is mainly focused on biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, and molecular biology with a specialization in the fields of prion, drug design, cancer, protein structure-function, protein folding, microRNA, pseudogenes, molecular cancer, proteomics, genomics, and protein expression and characterization by spectroscopic and calorimetric methods.

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Yusuf Tutar*

*by Bhawana Singh*

*by Małgorzata Rogalińska*

and Clinical Approach

**Section 3**

*by Kang-Hoon Lee and Je-Yoel Cho*

**Section 2**

Cancers

Molecular Mechanisms of Distinct Diseases

Molecular Medicines for Parasitic Diseases

*by Marcella Vieira Barroso Montenegro, Carlos Eduardo de Melo Amaral and Luiz Carlos Santana da Silva*

**Preface XI**

Diseases **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 29**

Genes to Personalized Medicine and Molecular Therapie **51**

**Chapter 3 53**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 81**

Genetics and Genomics in Clinical Practice **105**

**Chapter 6 107**

*by Adnan Batman, İrem Yalım Camci, Elif Kadioglu, Kezban Uçar Çifçi, Berçem Yeman Kıyak, Servet Tunoglu, Ezgi Nurdan Yenilmez Tunoglu* 

New Perspectives in Personalization of Therapy for Hematological

Genetic Risk Factors and Lysosomal Function in Parkinson Disease

Landscape Genetics: From Classic Molecular Markers to Genomics

Endogenous Retroelements in Cancer: Molecular Roles

*by Enéas Ricardo Konzen and Maria Imaculada Zucchi*
