An Introduction to Medical Genetics

An Introduction to Medical Genetics

This volume is the eighth edition of a book which first appeared in 1940. The science of genetics has changed much since then, and so has the book. For the second time it has Dr. Marcus Pembrey as joint author. Developed to fill a void in the field of medical genetics, the book continues to meet a need in the education of physicians. It aims to show how the science of human genetics plays an im...

An Introduction to Medical Genetics

a series of new concepts about the nlature of inherited variations in huinaii biochemistry which are now part of our thinking in I)iochemical genetics. It is interesting that these concepts, formulated by a practising physician, were largely neglected until in a new climate of thinking they were in part rediscovered by scientists working with totally different material. Only in the last decade ...

An Introduction to Medical Genetics

An Introduction to Conservation Genetics

introductory textbook. It is specifically aimed at medical students learning neuroanatomy, but residents in the neurosciences also have been known to find it a helpful reference. The book has two separate but integrated parts. The first few chapters and the first pages of later chapters are standard didactic text, which is well-written and concise. The second sections of most chapters include c...

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