Principles of medical genetics /
Thomas D. Gelehrter, Francis S. Collins, David Ginsburg
- 2nd edition
- Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, c1998
- xi, 410 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The role of genetics in medicine 2. Structure and behaviour of genes and chromosomes 3. Mendelian inheritance 4. Population genetics and multifactorial inheritance 5. Molecular genetics: Gene organization, regulation and manipulation 6. Molecular genetics of human disease: Hemoglobinopathies 7. Biochemical and molecular genetics of human disease 8. Cytogenetics 9. Anatomy of the human genome: Gene mapping, linkage and positional cloning 10. The human genome project 11. Cancer genetics 12. Clinical genetics 13. Gene therapy 14. Ethical considerations