Thompson & Thompson Genetics in medicine
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Thompson & Thompson Genetics in medicine
W.B. Saunders, c1991
5th ed
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Genetics in medicine
Thompson and Thompson Genetics in medicine
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Rev. ed. of: Thompson & Thompson Genetics in medicine / James S. Thompson, Margaret W. Thompson. 4th ed. 1986
Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-453) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Presents the classical principles of human genetics as applied to medicine as well as a new emphasis on molecular genetics and the treatment of genetic disease. Includes new, updated chapters on chromosomes, gene mapping and the human genome project, molecular basis of disease, and genetics of cancer. It presents three new appendices on chromosome banding ISCN diagrams, CHI square, and the Lod score table. Updated problems and answers are available for all chapters. An undergraduate textbook, it is also useful to health practitioners.
Table of Contents
- The chromosomal basis of heredity
- structure and function of chromosomes and genes
- patterns of single gene inheritance
- the tools of human molecular genetics
- genetic variation, polymorphism and mutation
- genes in population
- the human gene map - genetic linkage and gene mapping
- clinical cytogenetics - general principles and autosomal abnormalities
- the sex chromosomes and their abnormalities
- the haemaglobinopathies - models of molecular disease
- the molecular and biochemical basis of genetic disease
- treatment of genetic disease
- genetics of the immune system
- patterns of multifactorial inheritance
- genetics of cancer
- genetics of development
- genetic counselling
- prenatal diagnosis
- problems and answers. Appendices: chromosome banding ISCN diagrams
- Chi square
- Lod score table.
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