Genetics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Williams & Wilkins,
[1996]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | National medical series for independent study.
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Table of Contents:
- Nature of the genetic material
- Genetics in medicine
- Structure and function of genes
- Mitosis and meiosis
- Chromosome structure
- Epigenetic control of gene expression
- Chromosome anomalies
- General features
- Numerical alterations
- Structural alterations
- Other anomalies
- Single gene alterations
- Patterns of inheritance
- Types and mechanisms of mutation
- Clinical importance of polymorphisms
- Ethnic factors in genetic disease
- Linkage and mapping
- Linkage
- Gene mapping
- Genetic heterogeneity.
- The Human Genome Project
- DND diagnosis
- Techniques for DND analysis
- Detection of known mutations: direct DND diagnosis
- Detection of unknown mutations: indirect DND diagnosis
- DND banking
- Population genetics
- Genes in population
- mutations in populations
- Effects of medical intervention on disease gene frequencies
- Biochemical basis of disease
- Introduction
- Relationship of genes and proteins
- Diagnosis of a biochemical disease
- Genetic and environmental interaction
- Introduction
- Pharmacogenetics.
- Multifactorial inheritance
- Genetics of common adult disorders
- Behavioral disorders
- Congenital anomalies
- Teratogenesis and mutagenesis
- Introduction
- Teratogenesis
- Mutagenesis
- Epidemiology of congenital anomalies
- Cancer and genetics
- General nature of neoplasia
- Malignancy as a phenotype
- Malignancy as a genotype
- Developmental genetics
- Embryonic development
- Sexual differentiation
- Clinical genetic evaluation
- Approach to clinical genetics
- Calculating genetic risks
- Prenatal diagnosis.
- Introduction
- Diagnosic techniques
- The counseling process
- Genetic counseling
- Approach to genetic counseling
- Genetic screening
- Treatment of genetic disease
- Introduction
- Methods of treating genetic disease
- Ethical issues in medical genetics
- Introduction
- Ethical principles
- Making decisions in the presence of ethical dilemma
- Areas of conflict in clinical genetics
- Case studies
- Comprehensive exam.