Genetic Counselling
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Genetic Counselling

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Genetic Counselling

About this book

Genetic Counselling, Second Edition covers genetic counseling, which is mainly concerned with advising people about the risk that a member of a family will suffer from a congenital or hereditary disorder. This edition updates topics such as the advent of differential staining of chromosomes and extensive use of amniocentesis and other techniques in pre-natal diagnosis. When considering defects and disorders, an attempt is made to indicate where risk estimates should present no problems to the practicing physician, and where, by reason of genetical, statistical, or diagnostic complexities, it may be advisable to seek some specialist opinion. This book concentrates on such estimations of risk, emphasizing that pre-requisites for adequate estimations of risks are as accurate a diagnosis as possible. The mechanisms of inheritance of the trait or availability of data on which to base empirical estimates are also deliberated. This publication is intended as a guide to clinicians and as an aide-memoire to medical geneticists.

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Information

Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780433315919
eBook ISBN
9781483193045
Edition
2
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Clinical Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Genetic Counselling
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface to First Edition
  6. Preface to Second Edition
  7. Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
  8. Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY GENETICS
  9. Chapter 3. PRINCIPLES OF DERIVATION OF RISK ESTIMATES
  10. Chapter 4. RISK ESTIMATES IN RESPECT OF AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT GENE TRAITS
  11. Chapter 5. COUNSELLING X-LINKED RECESSIVE GENE TRAITS
  12. Chapter 6. RISK ESTIMATESā€”AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE GENE TRAITS
  13. Chapter 7. CONSANGUINITY
  14. Chapter 8. DISORDERS DUE TO CHROMOSOMAL ANOMALIES
  15. Chapter 9. DEFECTS AND DISORDERS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
  16. Chapter 10. DEFECTS AND DISORDERS OF THE EYES
  17. Chapter 11. MENTAL DEFECT AND MENTAL ILLNESS
  18. Chapter 12. DEAFNESS
  19. Chapter 13. DISORDERS OF MUSCLES
  20. Chapter 14. DISORDERS PREDOMINANTLY AFFECTING THE SKELETON
  21. Chapter 15. DEFECTS AND DISORDERS OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT
  22. Chapter 16. DEFECTS AND DISORDERS OF THE UROGENITAL SYSTEM
  23. Chapter 17. DEFECTS AND DISORDERS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
  24. Chapter 18. HEREDITARY DISORDERS OF THE SKIN AND INTEGUMENT
  25. Chapter 19. METABOLIC DISORDERS
  26. Chapter 20. HEREDITARY DISORDERS OF THE BLOOD
  27. Chapter 21. NEOPLASMS
  28. Chapter 22. RISKS TO OUTCOME OF PREGNANCY AND EFFECTS OF MUTAGENIC AND TERATOGENIC AGENTS
  29. Chapter 23. SOME SYNDROMES AND SOME MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
  30. Chapter 24. OUR PATIENTS AND THEIR PROBLEMS
  31. Appendix 1: AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT TRAITS NOT INVARIABLY PENETRANTā€”MORE COMPLEX COUNSELLING SITUATIONS
  32. Appendix 2: ESTIMATION OF PENETRANCE
  33. Appendix 3: GENETIC RISKS X-LINKED TRAITSā€”FURTHER PROBLEMS
  34. Appendix 4: CALCULATION OF COEFFICIENTS OF INBREEDING
  35. GLOSSARY
  36. Index