Medical genetics

With this book we* want to address young graduate students, clini- cians involved in transplantation, and technicians in transplantation immunology laboratories.

Cardiovascular diseases are the principal cause of mortality in many developed countries and are increasing in importance in developing countries where communicable diseases are being brought under control.

The discipline of genetic epidemiology pertains to the vertical transmission of the susceptibility (predisposition) to a complex disease in a structured population.

Diese erste Veröffentlichung über den Stand der Projekte zur Erforschung des menschlichen Genoms setzt sich kritisch mit den ethischen Aspekten der Genomanalyse und Gentherapie in der Humanmedizin auseinander.

Moderne und leistungsfähige Technik erfordert moderne und leistungsfähige Formen der ethischen Analyse und Bewertung von Technikentwicklung und -anwendung.

Anticlastogens in Mammalian and Human Cells covers research on the protection of chromosomes from the action of chemical mutagens by use of natural and synthetic antimutagens, which, because of their specific action on clastogenic damage are called anticlastogens.

This is the ninth volume in a series dealing with induced lesions in laboratory animals.

Das Buch beschäftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund der biologischen Evolution mit den Risiken der menschlichen Geburt.

All up-to-date aspects of DNA technology are discussed partly in review lectures but mostly in research articles in this volume: new methods, population statistics for different restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP's), new developments dealing with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), biostatistical aspects of single locus and multi locus profiles as well as examples of practical applications in paternity testing and forensic stain analysis.

Alcohol abuse, alcohol intolerance, alcohol dependence and other alcohol-related disabilities are some of the most challenging public health problems facing our modern-day society.

Das Buch enthält die Referate und wesentlichen Diskussionsbeiträge einer Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Bad Boll zum Thema "Ein Kind um jeden Preis?

The 5th edition of this successful Glossary has been completely revised, updated and supplemented by up-to-date terms used in genetic engineering and molecular genetics.

The last ten years have witnessed a remarkable increase in our awareness of the importance of events subsequent to transcriptional initiation in terms of the regulation and control of gene expression.

This volume contains papers presented at the international conference on "e;Transgenic Mice and Mutants in MHC Research"e;, held in Bar Harbor, Maine, in June, 1989.

The third volume of "e;Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics"e; contains the th scientific contributions presented at the 13 Congress of the International Society for Forensic Haemogenetics, held on October 19-21, 1989 in New Orleans, USA.

Dieses Buch stellt das erste deutschsprachige Werk dar, in dem die neuen, grundlegenden Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Molekularbiologie und Molekulargenetik vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Bedeutung für die klinische und wissenschaftliche Humanmedizin beschrieben und diskutiert werden.

Any professional concerned with immunology will be interested in this book dedicated to the memory of Milan Hasek, former director of the Prague Institute of Experimental Biology and Genetics.

Based in part on a survey of ethical decision-marking among682 medical geneticists worldwide, this book includes achapter authored by a geneticistand an ethicist in 19nations, describing genetic services, counselling,screening, prenatal diagnosis, and major ethical problemsand social controversies faced by geneticists.

It is a great pleasure for me to see this work in print.

This volume contains the proceedings of the meeting Genetics and Alzheimer's Disease held in Paris, on March 25,1988, by the Fondation Ipsen pour la Recherche Therapeuti- que.

Estimates reveal that there are some 200 million heterozygous carriers of abnormal hemoglobins genes worldwide, and tens of thousands of severely affected patients.

The question of how man has emerged must be as old as human thought itself.

On February 21 and 22, 1975, an International Workshop on the "e;Genetics of Diabetes Mellitus"e; was held in Gottingen, West-Germany.

In the fifteen years since the thalidomide disaster teratology has become a science in its own right, distinct from its progenitors, experimental embryology and develop- mental biology, but bearing many of the familiar features of both parents.

Hans-Jorg Senn H.

At this congress there were again numereous reports ofprogress in immunology.

The writing of this monograph was stimulated on the one hand by experience gained in the study of "e;cancer families"e;, and on the other, by the frequent perplexed and bewildered comments made by numerous physicians who have expressed amaze- ment that we could think that "e;cancer is hereditary"e;.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Different cancer types can result from a multiplicity of genetic and environmental factors.

Major and exciting advances in psychiatric genetics werediscussed at a 3-day international workshop.

This book comprises proceedings from the Third International Conference on Advances in Nutrition and Cancer, held in Naples in May 2012.

Induced pluripotent stem cells in cardiovascular research.

Accumulating evidence supports the role of defects in post-transcriptional gene regulation in the development of cancer.