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Introduction to risk calculation in genetic counseling / Ian D. Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Ian D., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetic counseling.
- Health risk assessment.
- Probabilities.
- Genetic disorders--Risk factors--Mathematical models.
- Genetic disorders.
- Genetic Counseling.
- Risk Assessment.
- Medical Subjects:
- Genetic Counseling.
- Risk Assessment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 241 p. ) ill.
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ian Young addresses the challenge of calculations in genetic counselling problem and demonstrates how risk can be estimated for inherited disorders using a basic knowledge of the laws of probability and their application to clinical problems.
- Contents:
- Genetic counseling and the laws of probability
- Autosomal dominant inheritance
- Autosomal recessive inheritance
- X-linked recessive inheritance
- The use of linked DNA markers
- Germline mosaicism
- Polygenic and multifactorial inheritance
- Cancer genetics
- Balanced chromosome rearrangements
- Other mechanisms of inheritance.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029403-5
- 0-19-770736-X
- 1-280-84645-3
- 9786610846450
- 0-19-974830-6
- 1-4294-2015-4
- OCLC:
- 1406785074
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