Description
Published in 2005: Genetics of Developmental Disabilities is written as a textbook and resource for physicians, basic and clinical researchers, and other professionals, students, and health care providers. Those interested in the causes and scientific understanding of developmental disabilities.
Table of Contents
Overview of Medical Genetics
1. A History of Medical Genetics
Giovanni Neri and Francesco D. Tiziano
2. Patterns of Inheritance: Mendelian and Non-Mendelian
Merlin G. Butler et al.
3. Clinical Cytogenetics and Testing for Developmental Disabilities
Joan H. M. Knoll and Linda D. Cooley
4. Molecular Genetics and Diagnostic Testing
Nancy J. Carpenter
5. The Human Genome Project and Its Impact on Understanding Developmental Disabilities
Daniel J. Wattendorf and Maximilian Muenke
6. Animal Models of Down Syndrome and Other Genetic Diseases Associated with Mental Retardation
Angela J. Villar and Charles J. Epstein
Classical Examples of Conditions with Developmental Disabilities
7. Medical Care of the Child with Down Syndrome
William I. Cohen
8. Fragile X and X-linked Mental Retardation
Sebastien Jacquemont, Vincent des Portes, and Randi Hagerman
9.Prader-Willie Syndrome: An Example of Genomic Imprinting
Merlin G. Butler
10. Angelman Syndrome
Charles A. Williams
11. Williams-Beuren Syndrome
Hui Zhang
12. Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome
Wendy R. Kates et al.
13. Smith-Magenis Syndrome-A Developmental Disorder with Circadian Dysfunction
Ann C. M. Smith
14. Rett Syndrome
Thierry Bienvenu
15. Microdeletion Syndromes
Gopalrao V. N. Velagaleti
16. Sex Chromosome Anomalies
John L. Hamerton and Jane A. Evans
17. Expanded Newborn Screening and Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Richard Hillman
18. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Margaret P. Adam and H. Eugene Hoyme
Related Topics
19. Prevalence and Genetic Epidemiology of Developmental Disabilities
Coleen A. Boyle, Kim Van Naarden Braun, and Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsop
20. Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Genetic Disorders
Barbara Y. Whitman
21. Behavioral Genetics and Developmental Disabiliites
Stephen A. Petrill
22. Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
Mark L. Walraich and Melissa A. Doffing
23. Cerebral Palsy
Burris Duncan
24. Diagnostic Evaluation and Treatment of Developmental Disabiliites
Kathy Ellerbeck, Chet Johnson, and Edward Hoffman
25. Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Children with Disabilities
Melinda F. Davis
