Research Catalog

Title

Embryos, genes and birth defects / editors, Patrizia Ferretti [and others].

Publication

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Ferretti, Patrizia.

Description

xiv, 547 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Embryonic Structures > abnormalities
• Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
• Embryology, Human
• Abnormalities, Human
• Teratogenesis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The relationship between genotype and phenotype : some basic concepts / Philip Stanier and Gudrun Moore -- Uses of databases in dysmorphology / Michael Baraitser -- Human cytogenetics / J. D. A. Delhanty -- Identification and analysis of genes involved in congenital malformation syndromes / Peter J. Scambler -- Transgenic technology and its role in understanding normal and abnormal mammalian development / Valerie Vidal and Andreas Schedl -- Chemical teratogens : hazards, tools, and clues / Nigel A. Brown -- The limbs / Patrizia Ferretti and Cheryll Tickle -- Brain and spinal cord / Andrew J. Copp -- Birth defects affecting the eye / Jane C. Sowden -- The ear / Sarah L. Spiden and Karen P. Steel -- Development of the enteric nervous system in relation to Hirschsprung's Disease / Heather M. Young, Donald F. Newgreen and Alan J. Burns -- The head / Gillian M. Morriss-Kay -- The heart / Deborah Henderson, Mary R. Hutson and Margaret L. Kirby -- The skin / Ahmad Waseem and Irene M. Leigh -- The vertebral column / David Rice and Susanne Dietrich -- The kidney / Paul J. D. Winyard -- The teeth / Irma Thesleff.

ISBN

0470090103 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005036439
• 9780470090107 (alk. paper)

OCLC

• ocm62782090
• SCSB-5254251

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries