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The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History.
Helps you develop and assess pedigrees to make diagnoses, evaluate risk, and counsel patients. The Second Edition of The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History not only shows how to take a medical-family history and record a pedigree, but also explains why each bit of information gathered is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History; Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Foreword; Preface; 1. The Language of the Pedigree; 2. Practical Inheritance; 3. Getting to the Roots: Recording the Family Tree; 4. Directed Medical-Genetics Family History Questions: Separating the Trees from the Forest; 5. Using a Pedigree to Recognize Individuals with an Increased Susceptibility to Cancer; 6. Medical Verification of Family History, and Resources for Patients to Record Their Genetic Family Histories; 7. The Challenge of Family History and Adoption.
- 8. Family History and Assisted Reproductive Technologies9. Genetic Counseling: Where to Turn, What to Expect, and the Pedigree as a Psychosocial Assessment and Counseling Tool; 10. Pedigree Predicaments; Glossary; A.1. Handy Reference Tables of Pedigree Nomenclature; A.2. Sample Clinical Pedigree Form; A.3. Sample Genetic Screening Form for Familial Cancer Risk Assessment; A.4. Sample Adoption Medical-Family History Form; A.5. The Genetics Library; A.6.