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Popular for its highly visual, clinical approach, Medical GeneticsSouth Asia Edition delivers an accessible yet thorough understanding of this active and fast-changing field. Key updates in this new edition cover the latest developments which are integrated with clinical practice to emphasize the central principles and how they apply to practice. Photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with boxes containing patient/family vignettes demonstrate clinical relevance and enhance visual impact of the material for easier and more effective learning and retention.Mini-summaries, study questions, suggested reading, and a detailed glossary supplement and reinforce what you learn from the text.More than 230 photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with patient/family vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate clinical significance.Clinical Commentary Boxes help demonstrate how the hard science of genetics has real applications to everyday patient problems and prepare you for problem-based integrated courses
Contents
1 Background and History2 Basic Cell Biology: Structure and Function of Genes and Chromosomes3 Genetic Variation: Its Origin and Detection4 Autosomal Dominant and Recessive Inheritance5 Sex-Linked and Nontraditional Modes of Inheritance6 Clinical Cytogenetics: The Chromosomal Basis of Human Disease7 Biochemical Genetics: Disorders of Metabolism8 Disease-Gene Identification9 Immunogenetics10 Genetic Basis of Development11 Cancer Genetics12 Multifactorial Inheritance and Common Diseases13 Genetic Testing and Gene Therapy14 Genetics and Precision Medicine15 Clinical Genetics and Genetic CounselingGlossaryAnswers to Study Questions
