Human genetics : possibilities and realities.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Symposium on Genetics and Human Biology: Possibilities and Realities, Corporate Author.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Genetics and Human Biology: Possibilities and Realities (1978 : London, England)

Symposium on Genetics and Human Biology: Possibilities and Realities

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 66.

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 66 (new ser.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human genetics--Congresses.

Human genetics.

Medical genetics--Congresses.

Medical genetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Excerpta Medica, 1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

Human Genetics: possibilities and realities; Contents; Introduction; Cultural change and its relevance for human genetics; Discussion; Genes and non-coding DNA sequences; Discussion; Reversed genetics: a new approach to the elucidation of structure-function relationship; Discussion; Genetics in an oocyte; Discussion; DNA repair defects and chromosome instability disorders; Discussion; General Discussion I; Human haemoglobin genetics; Discussion; Multilocus enzymes in man; Discussion; Gene clusters and the HLA system; Discussion; The genetics of the complement system; Discussion

Monoclonal antibodies and cell surface antigensDiscussion; General Discussion II; Human gene mapping and cancer biology; Discussion; Some recent progress in the analysis of malignancy by cell fusion; Discussion; The role of viral transformation and cytogenetic changes in viral oncogenesis; Discussion; The genetics of learning disabilities; Discussion; On being an individual, or: the man in the red hat; Discussion; Molecular and genetic organization: the future; Final General Discussion; Chairman's closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index

Notes:

"Held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 27th-29th June 1978."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613694201

9781280783814

1280783818

9780470718179

047071817X

9780470720486

0470720484

OCLC:

797918436