A short history of medical genetics

Main Author: Harper, Peter S.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; 57
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10375014
Table of Contents:
  • Before Mendel
  • Mendelism and human inherited disease
  • The rise of classical genetics
  • The beginnings of molecular biology
  • Human chromosomes
  • Human biochemical genetics
  • The human gene map
  • Genes, populations, and human inherited disease
  • Human genetics as a scientific discipline
  • From human to medical genetics
  • The elements of medical genetics
  • Medical genetics : the laboratory basis
  • Human molecular genetics
  • The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease
  • Eugenics
  • The tragedy of Russian genetics
  • Medical genetics : the ethical dimension
  • History in the making.