A short history of medical genetics /
An eminent geneticist, veteran author, OMMG Series Editor, and noted archivist, Peter Harper presents a lively account of how our ideas and knowledge about human genetics have developed over the past century from the perspective of someone inside the field with a deep interest in its historical aspe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Oxford monographs on medical genetics ;
no. 57. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.