Medical Genetics

Oxford Desk Reference - Clinical Genetics This important book provides a practical, easy-to-use guide to clinical consultation in genetics, covering the process of diagnosis, investigation, management, and counselling for patients. All genetic conditions are covered as well as referral categories for a clinical genetic opinion. Click here for more information

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Aging of the Genome The Dual Role of DNA in Life and Death Jan Vijg Aging has long been ascribed to the gradual accumulation of DNA mutations in the genome of somatic cells. However, only recently has the necessary sophisticated technology been developed to begin testing this theory and its consequences. Vijg critically reviews the concept of genomic instability as a possible universal cause of aging in the context of a new, holistic understanding of genome functioning in complex organisms resulting from recent advances in functional genomics and systems biology. The book provides an up-to-date synthesis of current research, as well as a look ahead to the design of strategies to retard or reverse the deleterious effects of aging. 25 January 2007 | £80.00 | hardback | 384 pages More details and ordering information

Females Are Mosaics X Inactivation and Sex Differences in Disease Barbara Migeon Much has been written about the Y chromosome and its role in inducing maleness. This is the first book about the X chromosome as a key to female development and the role of X-related factors in the etiology of sex differences in human disease. Barbara Migeon describes both the underlying molecular mechanisms and the remarkable genetic consequences of X inactivation and it role in determining the biological concepts characteristic of women. 5 April 2007 | £35.99 | hardback | 296 pages More details and ordering information

Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine The Antibiotic Makers David A. Hopwood This book highlights the lives of a group of soil microbes that make most of the antibiotics used in medicine today. Written by an insider, it describes how genetics tells us how these microscopic chemists compete in the soil and how their genes can be rearranged to make new antibiotics to fight reemerging diseases. 22 February 2007 | £27.99 | hardback | 272 pages More details and ordering information

A Dictionary of Genetics Robert C. King, William D. Stansfield, and Pamela K. Mulligan The publication of this fully updated edition of A Dictionary of Genetics coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the introduction of the term genetics by William Bateson in 1906 at the Third International Conference on Genetics. 17 August 2006 | £19.99 | paper | 608 pages More details and ordering information

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