LIC - GCU NRS-434V Hlth Assmt, 7th Edition

by Robert L. Nussbaum, MD, FACP, FACMG, Roderick R. McInnes, CM, MD, PhD, FRS(C), FCAHS, FCCMG and Huntington F Willard

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ISBN: 9780323363570

Publication Date: 09-18-2014

Page Count: 600

Imprint: Saunders

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Thompson & Thompson Genetics in Medicine Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

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ISBN: 9780323392044

Key Features
- Acquire the state-of-the-art knowledge you need on the latest advances in molecular diagnostics, the Human Genome Project, pharmacogenetics, and bio-informatics.
- Better understand the relationship between basic genetics and clinical medicine with a variety of clinical case studies.
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Contents

Introduction

1. Chromosomal Basis of Heredity

2. The Human Genome: Structure and Function of Genes and Chromosomes

3. Tools of Human Molecular Genetics

4. Principles of (Clinical) Cytogenetics

5. Clinical Cytogenetics: Disorders of the Autosomes and the Sex Chromosomes

6. Mechanisms of Inheritance part I: Mendelian (or Single-Gene) Patterns

7. Mechanisms of Inheritance part II: Mitochondrial, Imprinted, and Multifactorial Patterns

8. Genetic Variation in Individuals and Populations

9. The Genetic Contribution to Disease: Locating and identifying Disease Genes

10. Principles of Molecular Disease: Lessons from the Hemoglobinopathies

11. The Molecular and Biochemical Basis of Genetic Disease

12. The Treatment of Genetic Disease

13. Developmental Disorders and Birth Defects (Leslie Biesecker)

14. Genetics of Cancer

15. Genetic Counseling and Risk Assessment

16. Molecular Diagnostics

17. Prenatal Diagnosis

18. Genetics and Society

Case Studies
Authors

Robert L. Nussbaum, MD, FACP, FACMG, Holly Smith Chair of Medicine and Science, Professor of Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics and Pathology, Department of Medicine and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Roderick R. McInnes, CM, MD, PhD, FRS(C), FCAHS, FCCMG, Alva Chair in Human Genetics, Canada Research Chair in Neurogenetics, Professor of Human Genetics and Biochemistry, Director, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Huntington F Willard, Chief Scientific Officer, Genome Medical, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA