Olaf left a comment asking about what books a mathematically competent and generally informed non-geneticist can read to learn about modern genetics. As he notes there tends to be a bit of a lack of books that assume you are know the basics, but does not assume you have an undergrad degree. You tend to find things that are either of the form “this is Mr Gene, he makes proteins!”, or of the form “a non-Bayesian could infer with certainty an inversion-deletion event had caused this ribosomal disruption, so attached are they to their bootstrapped pseudo-statistics!”.
This sort of request also tends to come from the very large number of undergrads trained in genetics in some classical sense (a mixture of population and functional genetics) who want to get a general understanding of this whole Modern Genomics phenomenon that basically all of genetics is at least partly involved in these days.
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