Elements of Medical Genetics

Alan E. H. Emery (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

317 Seiten

1995 | 9th Revised edition
Churchill Livingstone (Verlag)
978-0-443-05175-3 (ISBN)

Infos

To facilitate ease of study, this edition is divided into three sections. The first outlines the basic principles and adheres as far as possible to the recommendations of the Royal College of Physicians working party on teaching genetics to medical students. In the second section, the horizons of the subject are broadened to show how genetics transcends traditional medical boundaries and is now making a major impact in all areas of medical science. The chapters of the concluding section focus on the practical applications of these new discoveries and how these are being implemented on a widepsread basis through the newly developed discipline of clinical genetics.

Inhalt

Part 1 Principles of human genetics: the history and impact of genetics in medicine; cellular and molecular basis of inheritance; chromosomes; recombinant DNA technology; developmental genetics; patterns of inheritance; mathematical and population genetics; polygenic and multifactorial inheritance. Part 2 Genetics in medicine: haemoglobin and the haemoglobinopathies; biochemical genetics; pharmacogenetics; immunogenetics; the genetics of cancer; genetic factors in common diseases; genetics and congenital abnormalities. Part 3 Clinical genetics: chromosome disorders; single gene disorders; carrier detection and presymptomatic diagnosis; risk calculation; prenatal diagnosis of genetic disease; population screening and community genetics; new developments - gene therapy and the human genome project; ethical considerations.

Produkt-Details

• Überarbeitung: Robert F. Mueller, Ian D. Young
• Zusatzinfo: 120 line illustrations, 60 b&w halftones, 16 colour halftones, glossary, index
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 191 x 248 mm
• Gewicht: 935 g
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-443-05175-5 / 0443051755
• ISBN-13: 978-0-443-05175-3 / 9780443051753
• Zustand: Neuware