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Medical Genetics: First South Asia Edition

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Lynn B. Jorde, John C. Carey, Michael J. Bamshad
  • Language: English

Popular for its highly visual, clinical approach, Medical Genetics: First South Asia Edition delivers an accessible yet thorough understanding of this active and fast-changing fi… Read more

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Popular for its highly visual, clinical approach, Medical Genetics: First South Asia Edition delivers an accessible yet thorough understanding of this active and fast-changing field. Key updates in this new edition cover the latest developments which are integrated with clinical practice to emphasize the central principles and how they apply to practice. Photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with boxes containing patient/family vignettes demonstrate clinical relevance and enhance visual impact of the material for easier and more effective learning and retention.

Key features

  • Mini-summaries, study questions, suggested reading, and a detailed glossary supplement and reinforce what you learn from the text.

  • More than 230 photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with patient/family vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate clinical significance.

  • Clinical Commentary Boxes help demonstrate how the hard science of genetics has real applications to everyday patient problems and prepare you for problem-based integrated courses

Table of contents

1 Background and History

2 Basic Cell Biology: Structure and Function of Genes and Chromosomes

3 Genetic Variation: Its Origin and Detection

4 Autosomal Dominant and Recessive Inheritance

5 Sex-Linked and Nontraditional Modes of Inheritance

6 Clinical Cytogenetics: The Chromosomal Basis of Human Disease

7 Biochemical Genetics: Disorders of Metabolism

8 Disease-Gene Identification

9 Immunogenetics

10 Genetic Basis of Development

11 Cancer Genetics

12 Multifactorial Inheritance and Common Diseases

13 Genetic Testing and Gene Therapy

14 Genetics and Precision Medicine

15 Clinical Genetics and Genetic Counseling

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  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 2017
  • Language: English

About the authors

Lynn B. Jorde

Author
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Mark and Kathie Miller Presidential Chair, Department of Human Genetics,University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

John C. Carey

Author
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics,University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Michael J. Bamshad

Author
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA