Genetic category: 251 books
Small Supernumerary Marker Chromosomes (sSMC)
A Guide for Human Geneticists and Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Human beings normally have a total of 46 chromosomes, with each chromosome present twice, apart from the X and Y chromosomes in males. Some three million people worldwide, however, have 47 chromosomes: they have a small supernumerary marker chromosome (sSMC) in addition to the 46 normal ones. This...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2018
This book describes Hemochromatosis, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases
Hemochromatosis (iron overload) is a disease in which too much iron accumulates in the body.
In hemochromatosis, iron can accumulate in most of the body's organs, but particularly in the liver, heart, and pancreas.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Fertility preservation has become one of the most important and fast growing fields of reproductive medicine. Although there are several strategies for fertility preservation in female, most of them are still considered experimental. It is important to perfect the existing technologies, but...
When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish
...and Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "bitter gene" that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways...
by Alan E.H. Emery
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
The muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that severely affect children and adults. For sufferers and their family, the illness presents enormous physical and psychological challenges. Written specifically for people with muscular dystrophy and their families, this book answers many...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Lowe syndrome (oculocerebrorenal syndrome) is characterized by:1. Vision disorders such as clouding of the lenses of the eyes (cataracts) that are present at birth,2. Kidney disorders that normally develop in the first year of life, and3. Brain abnormalities that are linked with intellectual disabilities.Lowe...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Williams syndrome is an infrequent disorder that can result in physical and mental development.It is inherited (passed down in families).Most people with Williams Syndrome are as friendly, happy and pure as the fairies found in the books of myths and tales.The word "elfin" may have used to describe...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Fanconi syndrome is a medical disorder of the tubes of the kidney in which some substances normally re-absorbed into the bloodstream by the kidneys are excreted into the urine instead.
Fanconi syndrome indicates the generalized poor function of the kidney’s proximal tubules, not the other nephron...
Uniparental Disomy (UPD) in Clinical Genetics
A Guide for Clinicians and Patients
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This book focus on genetic diagnostics for Uniparental Disomy (UPD), a chromosomal disorder defined by the exceptional presence of a chromosome pair derived from only one parent, which leads to a group of rare diseases in humans. First the molecular and cytogenetic background of UPD is described in...
by Lindy Bruzzone
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
As a child, Lindy Bruzzone knew how she would “someday” die. It would be from cancer as what occurred with almost everyone in her family up to her generation.
Bruzzone tells the story of an American family coming to America in the early 1600s, through today. Defying the odds of fate while...
Life Script
How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident obstacle...
Pandora's DNA
Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That’s not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark’s relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female...
Epigenetics
The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The book EPIGENETICS is a global update of Darwin's book The Origin of Species. There is no other book that embraces all of the events (political, socially, biologically, nutritionally, chemically and genetically) that have been spawned since the publication of The Origin of Species by Darwin more than...
Living with HHT
Understanding and Managing Your Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare genetic disorder that causes blood vessel abnormalities in the nose, skin, gastrointestinal tract, lungs, brain, and liver. Nosebleeds are the most common symptom of HHT, but abnormal vessels in other organs, if they are not diagnosed and treated,...