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Title

The Genetic basis of common diseases / [edited by] R.A. King, J.I. Rotter, A.G. Motulsky.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

• King, Richard A. (Richard Allen), 1939-
• Rotter, Jerome I.
• Motulsky, Arno G., 1923-

Description

xiii, 978 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; no. 20

Uniform Title

Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; no. 20.

Subjects

• Genetic Diseases, Inborn
• Medical genetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Approach to Genetic Bases of Common Diseases / Richard A. King, Jerome I. Rotter and Arno G. Motulsky -- 2. Molecular Genetics / Francis S. Collins and Thomas D. Gelehrter -- 3. Human Gene Mapping, Linkage, and Association / Robert S. Sparkes -- 4. Analysis of Genetic Data: Methods and Interpretation / Rita M. Cantor and Jerome I. Rotter -- 5. Genetics and Infectious Diseases / Barton Childs, E. Richard Moxon and Jerry A. Winkelstein -- 6. Immunogenetics and Disease / Rene R. P. de Vries and Jon J. van Rood -- 7. Biologic Basis of Autoimmune Disease / John I. Bell, Christian Boitard and Hugh O. McDevitt -- 8. Allergy and Asthma / Deborah A. Meyers and David G. Marsh -- 9. The Genetics of Coronary Atherosclerosis / Arno G. Motulsky and John D. Brunzell -- 10. Hypertension / Wylie Burke and Arno G. Motulsky -- 11. Structural Heart Disease / Richard B. Devereux and W. Ted Brown -- 12. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease / Friedrich Kueppers.
• 13. Peptic Ulcer Disease / Jerome I. Rotter, Tamar Shohat and Gloria M. Petersen -- 14. Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy / Warren Strober -- 15. Lactase Deficiency: Biologic and Medical Aspects of the Adult Human Lactase Polymorphism / Gebhard Flatz -- 16. Inflammatory Bowel Disease / Richard B. McConnell and Constance M. Vadheim -- 17. Genetic Basis of Chronic Liver Diseases / Kalle Kang, Sarah J. Schwarzenberg and Joseph R. Bloomer -- 18. Common Hyperbilirubinemias / Dorothy I. Whitmer -- 19. Thyroid Disease / R. Neil Schimke -- 20. Parathyroid Disease / Charles E. Jackson -- 21. Diabetes Mellitus / Jerome I. Rotter, Constance M. Vadheim and David L. Rimoin -- 22. Hyperuricemia and Gout / Elizabeth M. Short -- 23. Obesity / George A. Bray -- 24. Disorders of Adrenal Steroidogenesis / Phyllis W. Speiser, Perrin C. White and Maria I. New -- 25. Renal Tract Malformations / Jonathan Zonana -- 26. Gynecologic Disorders / Joe Leigh Simpson.
• 27. Infertility and Pregnancy Loss / Roger A. Williamson and Sherman Elias -- 28. Rheumatoid Arthritis / Richard A. King -- 29. Connective Tissue Biology and Common Skeletal Disorders / William A. Horton -- 30. Cancer in Families / R. Neil Schimke -- 31. Gastrointestinal Cancer / Randall W. Burt and Martin Lipkin -- 32. Breast Cancer / Nicholas L. Petrakis -- 33. Lung Cancer / John J. Mulvihill -- 34. Reproductive Organ Cancer / Joe Leigh Simpson -- 35. Hematologic Malignancies / Michelle M. Le Beau and Richard A. Larson -- 36. Epilepsy / Thomas D. Bird -- 37. Demyelinating Disease / Casper Jersild and Niels Grunnet -- 38. Parkinson\u0027s Disease / Roswell Eldridge and Walter A. Rocca -- 39. Alzheimer\u0027s Disease / Leonard L. Heston -- 40. The Major Affective Disorders: Bipolar, Unipolar, and Schizoaffective / Lynn R. Goldin, Elliot S. Gershon, John I. Nurnberger, Jr. and Wade H. Berrettini -- 41. Schizophrenia / Daniel R. Hanson and Irving I. Gottesman.
• 42. Alcoholism / Peter Propping -- 43. Panic Disorder / Raymond R. Crowe -- 44. Klinefelter\u0027s Syndrome / C. Alvin Paulsen and Stephen R. Plymate -- 45. Turner Syndrome / Judith G. Hall -- 46. Longevity and Aging / W. Ted Brown.

ISBN

0195054822 (alk. paper)

LCCN

90007643

OCLC

• 21869892
• ocm21869892
• SCSB-4716985

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries