Molecular Genetics for the Clinician

Pneumoviruses: Molecular Genetics and Reverse Genetics

Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...

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Genetics of asthma: an introduction for the clinician

Asthma runs in families, and children of asthmatic parents are at increased risk of asthma. Prediction of disease risk is pivotal for the clinician when counselling atopic families. However, this is not always an easy task bearing in mind the vast and ever-increasing knowledge about asthma genetics. The advent of new genotyping technologies has made it possible to sequence in great detail the h...

Ethics education for clinician–researchers in genetics: The combined approach

Advancements in genomic technology and genetic research have uncovered new and unforeseen ethical and legal issues that must now be faced by clinician-researchers. However, lack of adequate ethical training places clinician-researchers in a position where they might be unable to effectively assess and resolve the issues presented to them. The literature demonstrates that ethics education is rel...

Genetics and Heart Failure: A Concise Guide for the Clinician

The pathogenesis of heart failure involves a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Genetic factors may influence the susceptibility to the underlying etiology of heart failure, the rapidity of disease progression, or the response to pharmacologic therapy. The genetic contribution to heart failure is relatively minor in most multifactorial cases, but more direct and prof...