The genetic basis of common diseases /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: King, Richard A. (Richard Allen), 1939-, Rotter, Jerome I., Motulsky, Arno G., 1923-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Series:Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; no. 20.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Approach to genetic bases of common diseases / Richard A. King, Jerome I. Rotter and Arno G. Motulsky
  • Molecular genetics / Francis S. Collins and Thomas D. Gelehrter
  • Human gene mapping, linkage, and association / Robert S. Sparkes
  • Analysis of genetic data: methods and interpretation / Rita M. Cantor and Jerome I. Rotter
  • Genetics and infectious diseases / Barton Childs, E. Richard Moxon and Jerry A. Winkelstein
  • Immunogenetics and disease / Rene R.P. de Vries and Jon J. van Rood
  • Biologic basis of autoimmune disease / John I. Bell, Christian Boitard and Hugh O. McDevitt
  • Allergy and asthma / Deborah A. Meyers and David G. Marsh
  • Genetics of coronary atherosclerosis / Arno G. Motulsky and John D. Brunzell
  • Hypertension / Wylie Burke and Arno G. Motulsky
  • Structural heart disease / Richard B. Devereux and W. Ted Brown
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Friedrich Kueppers
  • Peptic ulcer disease / Jerome I. Rotter, Tamar Shohat and Gloria M. Petersen
  • Gluten-sensitive enteropathy / Warren Strober.
  • (cont) Lactase deficiency: biologic and medical aspects of the adult human lactase polymorphism / Gebhard Flatz
  • Inflammatory bowel disease / Richard B. McConnell and Constance M. Vadheim
  • Genetic basis of chronic liver diseases / Kalle Kang, Sarah J. Schwarzenberg and Joseph R. Bloomer
  • Common hyperbilirubinemias / Dorothy I. Whitmer
  • Thyroid disease / R. Neil Schimke
  • Parathyroid disease / Charles E. Jackson
  • Diabetes mellitus / Jerome I. Rotter, Constance M. Vadheim and David L. Rimoin
  • Hyperuricemia and gout / Elizabeth M. Short
  • Obesity / George A. Bray
  • Disorders of adrenal steroidogenesis / Physsis W. Speiser, Perrin C. White and Maria I. New
  • Renal tract malformations / Jonathan Zonana
  • Gynecologic disorders / Joe Leigh Simpson
  • Infertility and pregnancy loss / Roger A. Williamson and Sherman Elias
  • Rheumatoid arthritis / Richard A. King
  • Connective tissue biology and common skeletal disorders / William A. Horton
  • Cancer in families / R. Neil Schimke
  • Gastrointestinal cancer / Randall W. Burt and Martin Lipkin.
  • (cont) Breast cancer / Nicholas L. Petrakis
  • Lung cancer / John J. Mulvihill
  • Reproductive organ cancer / Joe Leigh Simpson
  • Hemotologic malignancies / Michelle M. Le Beau and Richard A. Larson
  • Epilepsy / Thomas D. Bird
  • Demyelinating disease / Casper Jersild and Niels Grunnet
  • Parkinson's disease / Roswell Eldridge and Walter A. Rocca
  • Alzheimer's disease / Leonard L. Heston
  • Major affective disorders: bipolar, unipolar, and schizoaffective / Lynn R. Goldin ... [et al.]
  • Schizophrenia / Daniel R. Hanson and Irving I. Gottesman
  • Alcoholism / Peter Propping
  • Panic disorder / Raymond R. Crowe
  • Klinefelter's syndrome / C. Alvin Paulsen and Stephen R. Plymate
  • Turner syndrome / Judith G. Hall
  • Longevity and aging / W. Ted Brown.