Thalassaemia : the biography /
Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was established. Written by Sir David Weatherall, an expert in molecular medicine and the founder of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford, this tells the story of early...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Biographies of disease.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was established. Written by Sir David Weatherall, an expert in molecular medicine and the founder of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford, this tells the story of early reports of the disease, historical accounts, the identification of the disease as having an inherited basis, early work on thalassaemia as a disorder of the synthesis of haemoglobin, and from the 1960s with the rise of molecular biology, the study of the condition at the DNA level. The commonality. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780191573187 0191573183 9780199565603 0199565600 1282774956 9781282774957 9786612774959 6612774959 0191614165 9780191614163 |