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Title

Thompson & Thompson genetics in medicine : Robert L. Nussbaum, Roderick R. McInnes, Huntington F. Willard ; with clinical case studies prepared by Cornelius F. Boerkoel, III.

Author

Nussbaum, Robert L., 1950-

Publication

Philadelphia : Saunders, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• McInnes, Roderick R.
• Willard, Huntington F.
• Thompson, Margaret W. (Margaret Wilson), 1920-2014.

Description

xi, 444 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Alternative Title

• Thompson and Thompson genetics in medicine
• Genetics in medicine

Subject

• Medical genetics
• Genetics, Medical
• Medische genetica
• Génétique médicale
• Genética médica

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Chromosomal basis of heredity -- Ch. 3. The human genome : structure and function of genes and chromosomes -- Ch. 4. Tools of human molecular genetics -- Ch. 5. Patterns of single-gene inheritance -- Ch. 6. Genetic variation in individuals : mutation and polymorphism -- Ch. 7. Genetic variation in populations -- Ch. 8. Gene mapping and the human genome project -- Ch. 9. Principles of clinical cytogenetics -- Ch. 10. Clinical cytogenetics : disorders of the autosomes and the sex chromosomes -- Ch. 11. Principles of molecular disease : lessons from the hemoglobinopathies -- Ch. 12. The molecular and biochemical basis of genetic disease -- Ch. 13. The treatment of genetic disease -- Ch. 14. Genetics of the immune system -- Ch. 15. Genetics of disorders with complex inheritance -- Ch. 16. Genetics and cancer -- Ch. 17. Genetic aspects of development / Robert L. Nussbaum and Gregory S. Barsh -- Ch. 18. Prenatal diagnosis -- Ch. 19. Genetic counseling and risk assessment -- Ch. 20. Genetics and society.

ISBN

• 0721602444
• 9780721602448

LCCN

2004042739

OCLC

• ocm54408133
• 54408133
• SCSB-5476489

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries