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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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- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical genetics.
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- 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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