Medical genetics

This book provides the reader with up-to-date information on important advances in the understanding of breast cancer and innovative approaches to its management.

The genotype/phenotype dichotomy is being slowly replaced by a more complex relationship whereby the majority of phenotypes arise from interactions between one's genotype and the environment in which one lives.

This unique, case-based guide provides a thoughtful and comprehensive overview of the genetic basis of male infertility for the practicing clinician.

This unique book explores the role of retrotransposons in human health and disease.

This book provides a comprehensive view of metabolomics, from the basic concepts, through sample preparation and analytical methodologies, to data interpretation and applications in medicine.

This work was compiled to serve as a convenient source that covers a number of techniques (and details of their use) in the rather large field of nanomedicine, with special attention paid to gene delivery.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of breast MRI for screening high-risk women, including those with familial-genetic hereditary predisposition and previous chest radiation therapy, typically lymphoma survivors.

Dieses essential gibt einen Überblick über Grundlagen sowie Chancen und Risiken der Gentherapie, mit besonderem Fokus auf das Genome Editing.

Over the past decade a complex role for DNA damage response (DDR) in tumorigenesis has emerged.

This Atlas of Inherited Retinal Disorders provides a thorough overview of various inherited retinal dystrophies with emphasis on phenotype characteristics and how they relate to the most frequently encountered genes.

The present volume of Epigenetics and Human Health is devoted to the patho-epigenetics of viral and microbial infections, an exiting new field of disease-related epigenetic research.

This atlas presents the results of cases of structural chromosome aberrations based on the currently available methods of analysis for different types of abnormality.

This volume describes important functions and roles of micro RNAs in the vasculature in health, disease, therapeutics and diagnostics.

The mammalian genome is constantly challenged by exogenous and endogenous threats.

As there are a number of nuances in terms of how to manage mutation carriers (both with and without a concomitant diagnosis of breast cancer), this text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of this field.

This book provides a detailed evidence-based overview of the latest developments in how the structure of the human genome is relevant to the health professional.

This book offers authoritative contributions by world experts actively working on different aspects of phototrophic prokaryotes.

This book provides case studies that can be used in Systems Biology related classes.

This textbook takes you on a journey to the basic concepts of cancer biology.

This second edition shows how long non-coding RNAs (lnc)RNAs have emerged as a new paradigm in epigenetic regulation of the genome.

This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions.

This book presents a collection of articles on various aspects of current research on aging.

Molecular Medicine is the application of genetic or DNA-based knowledge to the modern practice of medicine.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

This two-volume set provides a general overview of the evolution of the human genome; The first volume overviews the human genome with descriptions of important gene groups.

This thesis outlines the development of the very first technology for high-throughput analysis of paired heavy and light-chain antibody sequences, opening an entirely new window for antibody discovery and the investigation of adaptive immune responses to vaccines and diseases.

Genomic and Precision Medicine: Primary Care, Third Edition is an invaluable resource on the state-of-the-art tools, technologies and policy issues that are required to fully realize personalized health care in the area of primary care.

This volume of Methods in Enzymology looks at Gene Transfer Vectors for Clinical Application.

Neural Crest Cells: Evolution, Development and Disease summarizes discoveries of historical significance and provides in-depth, current analyses of the evolution of neural crest cells, their contribution to embryo development, and their roles in disease.

Cancer and Noncoding RNAs offers an in-depth exploration of noncoding RNAs and their role in epigenetic regulation of complex human disease, most notably cancer.

This book gives an overview of the current knowledge on the most common neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Lewy body dementia,Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and additional less common neurodegenerative diseases.

This book provides information on a wide variety of  issues ranging from genetics to clinical description of the syndromes, genetic testing and counseling, and clinical management including surveillance, surgical and prophylactic interventions, and chemoprevention.

The book illustrates how biostatistics may numerically summarize human genetic epidemiology using R, and may be used successfully to solveproblems in quantitative Genetic Epidemiology Biostatistics for Human Genetic Epidemiology provides statistical methodologies and R recipes for human genetic epidemiologic problems.

The book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of phytochemicals as efficient cancer therapeutics.

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Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

This book comprehensively summarizes the biology, etiology, and pathology of ovarian cancer and explores the role of deep molecular and cellular profiling in the advancement of precision medicine.

This book explores the recent clinical and research findings in the field of prenatal screening and diagnosis.

There are several types of damage that can be found in the male gamete.

This contributed book covers all aspects concerning the clinical scenario of breast cancer in young women, providing physicians with the latest information on the topic.

This book is aimed to cover the role of genetic polymorphisms in human genes related to RBC disorders, metabolic enzymes, immune response, and cytoadherence in the susceptibility/resistance to malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.

This book provides a detailed and  up-to-dated information on the genomes belonging to three major life forms on Earth - archaea, prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

This unique advanced textbook provides a clear and comprehensive description of the field of gene delivery, gene therapy and genetic pharmacology, with descriptions of the main gene transfer vectors and a set of selected therapeutic applications, along with safety considerations.

Under the name of Frontotemporal Dementias (FTD) numerous hereditary and sporadic disorders are listed.

Clinical Applications of Immunogenetics: Immunogenetics: A Molecular and Clinical Overview, Volume II provides readers with an exclusive, updated overview of scientific knowledge, achievements and findings in the field of immunogenetics.

Genomic and Precision Medicine: Oncology, Third Edition focuses on the applications of genome discovery as research points to personalized cancer therapies.