Popular for its highly visual, clinical approach, Medical Genetics delivers an accessible yet thorough understanding of this active and fast-changing field. Key updates in this new edition cover the latest developments which are integrated with clinical practice to emphasize the central principles and how they apply to practice. Photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with boxes containing patient/family vignettes demonstrate clinical relevance and enhance visual impact of the material for easier and more effective learning and retention. Mini-summaries, study questions, suggested reading, and a detailed glossary supplement and reinforce what you learn from the text. More than 230 photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with patient/family vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate clinical significance. Clinical Commentary Boxes help demonstrate how the hard science of genetics has real applications to everyday patient problems and prepare you for problem-based integrated courses. Self-assessment study questions aid in retention and review of key material. The latest knowledge and research on gene identification, cancer genetics, gene testing and gene therapy, common disorders, ethical and social issues, and much more so you can keep up with current developments in genetics.

'Medical Genetics' offers up-to-date information on modern genetics. This comprehensive study includes the latest findings from genetic research and how that knowledge can be used in clinical practice.

Popular for its highly visual, clinical approach, Medical Genetics: First South Asia Edition delivers an accessible yet thorough understanding of this active and fast-changing field. Key updates in this new edition cover the latest developments which are integrated with clinical practice to emphasize the central principles and how they apply to practice. Photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with boxes containing patient/family vignettes demonstrate clinical relevance and enhance visual impact of the material for easier and more effective learning and retention. - Mini-summaries, study questions, suggested reading, and a detailed glossary supplement and reinforce what you learn from the text. - More than 230 photographs, illustrations, and tables, along with patient/family vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate clinical significance. - Clinical Commentary Boxes help demonstrate how the hard science of genetics has real applications to everyday patient problems and prepare you for problem-based integrated courses

Genética Médica agora tem conteúdo impresso + on-line no Student Consult. Os autores de renome mundial compartilham seus anos de experiência para oferecer a cobertura mais precisa e abrangente dos conceitos centrais da genética, enquanto suas aplicações clínicas e preparam você para transformar a teoria em prática. Um projeto gráfico vibrante, inteiramente colorido dá vida a importantes conceitos para auxiliar na aprendizagem e na retenção da informação. Enquanto que a preocupação com a atualização está refletida na ênfase aos princípios centrais da genética e suas aplicações clínicas. Está refletida também na integração com os desenvolvimentos recentes na genética molecular e genômica com a prática clínica. Os autores evoluíram o conteúdo a partir de cursos que eles administram para estudantes de medicina e de enfermagem, estudantes de aconselhamento genético e estudantes de graduação e pós-graduação na área da genética humana. Também é útil para funcionários de hospitais, clínicos e outros profissionais da área da saúde que desejam se familiarizar com a genética médica.

Known for its up-to-date coverage of both basic science and clinical application, Medical Genetics and Genomics, 7th Edition, has been fully revised to reflect recent advances in the genetics of common diseases, as well as current progress in genetic testing and gene therapy. This accessible, practical text integrates key concepts with clinical practice, highlighted by numerous illustrations, tables, concept summaries, and more—all designed to enhance effective learning and retention of complex materia. - Discusses topical issues such as polygenic scores and their potential uses in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, along with the latest advancements in sequencing technologies and their role in genetic testing and diagnosis. - Provides an up-to-date discourse on the modes and applications of genetic testing. - Contains useful concept summaries, more than 230 photographs, illustrations, and tables, as well as patient/family vignettes that present valuable perspectives on disease and treatment. - Features a larger quantity of Clinical Commentary boxes that demonstrate how the hard science of genetics has real applications to everyday patient problems, preparing you for problem-based integrated courses. - Uses examples of diseases to illustrate important concepts, demonstrating their relevance to medicine. - Study questions for self-assessment are provided within the print book, as well as 200 additional USMLE-style questions online.