Practical genetic counselling

✍ Scribed by Harper, Peter S

Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 417
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

New edition of a title with long-standing success in clinical genetics.

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: Genetic counselling: an introduction --
Genetic counselling in Mendelian disorders --
Common disorders and genetic counselling --
Chromosome abnormalities --
Molecular genetics and genetic counselling --
Dysmorphology and genetic syndromes --
Carrier testing and genetic prediction --
Prenatal diagnosis and reproductive aspects of medical genetics --
Special issues in genetic counselling --
The genetic counselling clinic --
Neuromuscular disorders --
Central nervous system disorders --
Disorders of mental function --
Disorders of bone and connective tissue --
Oral and craniofacial disorders --
The skin --
The eye --
Deafness --
Cardiovascular and respiratory disorders --
The gastrointestinal tract --
Renal and urinary tract disease --
Endocrine and reproductive disorders --
Inborn errors of metabolism --
Disorders of blood and immune function --
Genetic risks in cancer --
Environmental hazards --
Population aspects of genetic counselling and genetic screening --
Genetics and society.

✦ Subjects

Genetic counseling. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Genetic. MEDICAL -- Genetics.

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