The book does not contain basic genetics and
molecular biology, but rather topics from human genetics mainly from medical
point of views. Some of the 15 chapters deal with medical genetics, but the
chapters also introduce to the basic knowledge of cell division, cytogenetics,
epigenetics, developmental genetics, stem cell biology, oncogenetics,
immunogenetics, population genetics, evolution genetics, nutrigenetics, and to a
relative new subject, the human genomics and its applications for the study of
the genomic background of complex diseases, pharmacogenomics and for the
investigation of the genome environmental interactions.
Author(s): Valeria Laszlo, Sara Toth, Erna Pap, Csaba Szalai,
Andras Falus and Ferenc Oberfrank
This note covers the following topics: Cells and DNA, How
Genes Work, Variants and Health, Inheriting Genetic Conditions, Genetics and
Human Traits, Genetic Testing, Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing.
Author(s): U.S. National Library of Medicine, National
Institutes of Health
This PDF covers the
following topics related to Genetics : Descriptive Statistics for DNA Sequences,
The Method of Maximum Likelihood, Genetic Drift, Gene Genealogies, Relating Gene
Genealogies to Genetics, The Site Frequency Spectrum, The Mismatch
Distribution.
This note covers the
following topics: quantitative versus qualitative genetics, Hardy-Weinberg law
for gene frequency stability in large populations, Relationship and inbreeding,
Estimation of breeding values, Inbreeding, crossing and bred structure,
Chromosomes and chromosome aberrations, Genetics on hair and coat colour in
mammals, Estimating- and biotechnology and disease resistance.
This lecture note covers the following
topics: Mendelian inheritance, Mendelian genetics, Meiosis and the Chromosome
theory, Gene mapping, Mutations and mutagenesis, Cytogenetics, Gene regulation,
Genetic interaction, Population genetics, Genetic diseases, Developmental
genetics.
Medical genetics involves the
application of genetic principles in the practice of medicine. Medical genetics
encompasses diagnosis and treatment of genetic diseases, study of inheritance of
diseases in families, mapping of disease genes to their chromosome locations,
study of the molecular genetics and pathogenesis of inherited disorders,
provision of genetic counseling for families, and recently, investigations of
methods for gene therapy. Topics covered includes: Mendelian Genetics, Non-Mendelian
Genetics, Clinical Cytogenetics, Dysmorphology, Genetic Counseling, Prenatal
Diagnosis, Clinical DNA Diagnosis, Cancer Genetics, Problem Solving in Genetics,
Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Genetics.
Comparative Genomics is a collection of robust protocols for molecular
biologists beginning to use comparative genomic analysis tools in a variety of
areas.
The first Section
of this book provides readers with background and several methodologies for
understanding genetic disorders. Genetic defects, diagnoses and treatments of
the respective unifactorial and multifactorial genetic disorders are reviewed in
the second and third Sections.
Genes and Disease is a collection of
articles that discuss genes and the diseases that they cause. These genetic
disorders are organized by the parts of the body that they affect. As some
diseases affect various body systems, they appear in more than one chapter.
Author(s): National
Center for Biotechnology Information US
A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA,
including all of its genes. Each genome contains all of the
information needed to build and maintain that organism.