Clinical genetics handbook /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Blackwell Scientific Publications,
1993.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Applied genetics
- Genetic assessment and counseling by the primary care physician
- Genetic counseling: principles and methods
- Consanguinity
- Reproductive failure: infertility, spontaneous abortion and stillbirth
- Reproductive options
- Prenatal diagnosis
- Genetic screening
- Disorders in clinical genetics
- Mental retardation
- Chromosome disorders
- Autosomal chromosome syndromes
- Down's syndrome
- Sex chromosome anomalies
- Fragile X syndrome
- Neurologic disorders
- Neural-tube defects: anencephaly/spina bifida
- Hydrocephalus
- Epilepsy
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Neurofibromatosis
- Alzheimer's disease
- Huntington's disease
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Genetic neuromuscular disorders
- Muscle disorders
- Genetic muscle disorders: dystrophies, myotonias and myopathies
- Hematologic disorders
- Heritable clotting disorders
- Sicke-cell anemia
- Thalasemias
- Cardiovascular disorders
- Predisposition to coronary artery disease
- Hypertension
- Congenital heart defects
- Skeletal system disorders
- Short stature
- Congenital limb defects.
- (cont) Respiratory system disorders
- Cystic fibrosis
- α₁-antitrypsin deficiency
- Urogenital system disorders
- Cystic kidney disease
- Ambiguous genitalia and hermaphroditism
- Disorders of other specific systems
- Genetic disorders of the immune system
- Hereditary visual disorders
- Hereditary hearing loss
- Genetic disorders of the skin
- Hereditary disorders of connective tissue
- Metabolic disease
- Classification of inborn errors of metabolism
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Wilson's disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- Phenylketonuria
- Cancer
- Hereditary cancers
- Familial forms of breast cancer
- Genetic forms of colon cancer
- Psychiatric disorders
- Alcoholism and fetal alcohol syndrome
- Multiple congenital anomalies
- Syndromes/symptom complexes
- Teratogenesis
- Isolated congenital anomalies
- Cleft lip and/or cleft palate
- Other isolated birth defects
- Pharmacogenetics
- Genetic problems in anesthesia
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (drug-induced hemolytic anemia)
- Porphyria.