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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harper, Peter S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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.