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Emery and Rimoin's principles and practice of medical genetics and genomics. Foundations / edited by Reed E. Pyeritz, Bruce R. Korf, Wayne W. Grody.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Pyeritz, Reed E., editor.
Korf, Bruce R., editor.
Grody, Wayne W., editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medical genetics.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
Seventh edition.
Other Title:
Foundations
Principles and practice of medical genetics and genomics
Place of Publication:
London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2019].
System Details:
text file
Contents:
1 Medicine in a Genetic and Genomic Context p. 1 / Reed E. Pyeritz
1.1 Introduction: Our History p. 1
1.2 The Principles of Disease p. 2
1.3 Defining Disease p. 4
1.4 The "How" Questions p. 5
1.5 The "Why" Questions p. 12
1.6 Prevention and Treatment p. 15
2 Foundations and Application of Precision Medicine p. 21 / Geoffrey S. Ginsburg and Susanne B. Haga
2.1 Overview of Precision Medicine p. 21
2.2 Precision Medicine Applications Across the Lifespan and Clinical Specialties p. 22
2.3 Precision Drug Development p. 25
2.4 Precision Medicine Research p. 29
2.5 The Practice of Precision Medicine p. 30
3 Mature and Frequency of Genetic Disease p. 47 / Bruce R. Korf and Reed E. Pyeritz and Wayne W. Grody
3.2 Frequency of Genetic Disease p. 47
3.3 Morbidity and Mortality Due to Genetic Disease p. 50
4 Genome and Gene Structure p. 53 / Madhuri R. Hegde and Michael R. Crowley
4.1 Introduction: Composition of the Nuclear Human Genome p. 53
4.2 Double Helix Structure, DNA Replication, Transcription, and Meiotic Recombination p. 55
4.3 Organization of Genomic DNA p. 57
4.4 Structure of Genes (Transcriptional Units): Exons and mRNA p. 65
4.5 Translation of RNA Into Protein p. 71
5 Epigenetics p. 79 / Rosanna Weksberg and Darci T. Butcher and Cheryl Cytrynbaum and Michelle T. Siu and Sanaa Choufani and Benjamin Tycko
5.2 Epigenetic Mechanisms: Chromatin, Histone Modifications, DNA Methylation, and Long Noncoding RNAs p. 80
5.3 Epigenetic Reprogramming p. 83
5.4 Epigenetic Regulation of X Inactivation p. 84
5.5 Genomic Imprinting p. 86
5.6 Genetic Disorders Caused by Mutations in Epigenes p. 93
5.7 Methods for Studying Epigenetic Marks p. 97
5.8 Cancer Epigenetics p. 98
5.9 Environmental Influences on the Epigenome p. 101
5.10 Interactions Between the Genome and the Epigenome p. 104
5.11 The Future of Epigenomics p. 105
6 Human Genomic Variants and Inherited Disease: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences p. 125 / Stylianos E. Antonarakis and David N. Cooper
6.2 Molecular Mechanisms of Variants Causing Human Inherited Disease p. 126
6.3 Disease-Causing Variants p. 130
6.4 Consequences of Mutations p. 149
6.5 General Principles of Genotype-Phenotype Correlations p. 168
6.6 Why Study Mutation? p. 170
7 Genes in Families p. 201 / Jackie Cook
7.2 Pedigree Construction p. 201
7.3 Unifactorial Inheritance/Single-Gene Disorders p. 202
7.4 Dominance and Recessiveness p. 203
7.5 Autosomal Dominant Inheritance p. 206
7.6 Autosomal Recessive Inheritance p. 210
7.7 Sex-Linked Inheritance p. 213
7.8 Partial Sex Linkage p. 218
7.9 Nontraditional Inheritance p. 219
7.10 Chromosomal Disorders p. 222
7.11 Polygenic and Multifactorial Inheritance p. 223
7.12 Isolated Cases p. 224
8 Analysis of Genetic Linkage p. 227 / Rita M. Cantor
8.1 Introduction to Linkage Analysis p. 227
8.2 Linkage Analysis: Basic Concepts p. 228
8.3 Extending Parametric Linkage Analysis p. 231
8.4 Linkage Analysis for Complex and Quantitative Traits p. 233
8.5 Linkage Analysis: Future Directions p. 235
9 Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance p. 237 / Fady M. Mikhail
9.2 Chromosome Structure p. 237
9.3 Chromosomes in Cell Division p. 239
9.4 Methods for Studying Human Chromosomes p. 244
9.5 Functional Organization of Chromosomes p. 254
9.6 Sex Chromosomes and Sex Determination p. 256
9.7 Uniparental Disomy and Imprinting p. 259
9.8 Chromosome Abnormalities p. 260
10 Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine p. 267 / Douglas C. Wallace and Marie T. Lott and Vincent Procaccio
10.2 Mitochondrial Biochemistry p. 268
10.3 Mitochondrial Genetics p. 270
10.4 mtDNA and Human Origins p. 273
10.5 mtDNA Coded Mitochondrial Diseases p. 274
10.6 nDNA Coded Mitochondrial Diseases p. 284
10.7 Mitochondrial Etiology of Complex Diseases p. 285
10.8 Diagnosis of Mitochondrial Diseases p. 305
10.9 Metabolic Therapies of Mitochondrial Diseases p. 306
10.10 Genetic Therapies of Mitochondrial Diseases p. 307
11 Multifactorial Inheritance and Complex Diseases p. 323 / Allison Fialkowski and T. Mark Beasley and Hemant K. Tiwari
11.2 Determining the Genetic Component of a Trait p. 326
11.3 The International HapMap Project p. 330
11.4 Genome-Wide Association Studies p. 331
11.5 Imputation p. 333
11.6 Association Methods/Statistical Analysis p. 334
11.7 Analysis of Rare Variants Using New Technologies p. 337
11.8 Statistical Fine Mapping of Genome-Wide Association Studies Data Sets to Determine Causal Variants p. 338
11.9 Transethnic Meta-Analysis p. 338
11.10 Other Data Types and Their Analysis Methods p. 339
11.11 Future Directions/Integration p. 343
12 Population Genetics p. 359 / H. Richard Johnston and Bronya J.B. Keats and Stephanie L. Sherman
12.2 Hardy-Weinberg Law p. 359
12.3 Factors That Affect Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium p. 364
12.4 Applications in Population Genetics p. 370
13 Pathogenetics of Disease p. 375 / Reed F. Pyeritz
13.2 The Scope of Abnormal Phenotypes: Susceptibilities, Diseases, and Malformations p. 376
13.3 Development of Anatomic Structures: Angular Homeostasis p. 377
13.4 Pathogenetics of Refined Traits p. 379
13.5 Pathways and Multiple-Stage Processes p. 379
13.6 Molecular Pathogenetics p. 381
14 Twins and Twinning p. 387 / Mark P. Umstad and Lucas Calais-Ferreira and Katrina J. Scurrah and Judith G. Hall and Jeffrey M. Craig
14.2 Typical Twinning in Humans p. 388
14.3 Atypical Twinning p. 389
14.4 Placentation p. 391
14.5 Incidence of Twins p. 392
14.6 Sex Ratio in MZ Twinning p. 392
14.7 Structural Defects in Twins p. 392
14.8 Zygosity Determination p. 393
14.9 The Etiology of Twinning p. 395
14.10 Genetic and Epigenetic Differences Within Pairs of MZ Twins p. 398
14.11 Twin Research: Designs and Analytic Approaches p. 400
14.12 Twin Registries and International Collaboration p. 403
15 The Biological Basis of Aging: Implications for Medical Genetics p. 415 / Junko Oshima and Fuki M. Hisama and George M. Martin
15.2 What is Aging? p. 415
15.3 Why do We Age? p. 419
15.4 How do We Age? p. 424
15.5 Progeroid Syndromes of Humans p. 429
15.6 Pro-Longevity Loci and "Antigeroid" Syndromes p. 434
16 Pharmacogenomics p. 445 / Daniel W. Nebert and Ge Zhang
16.2 Fundamental Aspects of Clinical Pharmacology p. 446
16.3 History of Genetics Relevant to PGx p. 450
16.4 Early PGx Examples p. 454
16.5 Pharmacogenomics p. 463
16.6 Response to Drugs Other Than Genotype of the Patient p. 470
16.7 FDA Recommendations for PGx Genotyping p. 473.
Notes:
Includes index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed November 29, 2018).
ISBN:
9780128126851
012812685X
OCLC:
1076269081
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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