Genomic imprinting and uniparental disomy in medicine clinical and molecular aspects /
This authoritative publication offers a rigorous clinical and molecular perspective on genomic imprinting and uniparental disomy (UPD), including a practical description of the laboratory tests used to assess relevant disorders. This work provides a full synopsis and discussion of genomic imprinting...
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Wiley InterScience electronic collection |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/0471221937 |
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This authoritative publication offers a rigorous clinical and molecular perspective on genomic imprinting and uniparental disomy (UPD), including a practical description of the laboratory tests used to assess relevant disorders. This work provides a full synopsis and discussion of genomic imprinting and helps to unravel the explosion of research advances since the discovery of UPD. |
Item Description: | Errata slip inserted. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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0471459135 9780471459132 0471221937 9780471221937 |
Index Number: | RB155 |
CLC: | R596 |
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Genomic Imprinting and Uniparental Disomy in Medicine; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Detection of Uniparental Disomy and Imprinting by DNA Analysis; Chapter 3 Mechanisms Generating Uniparently Disomy and Genomic Imprinting Disorders; Chapter 4 Uniparental Disomy for Individual Human Chromosomes: Review of Cases; Chapter 5 ''Old'' and ''New'' Syndromes with Uniparental Disomy; Chapter 6 The Prader-(Labhardt)-Willi Syndrome; Chapter 7 The Angelman Syndrome (AS); Chapter 8 The Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS). Chapter 9 Genetic Counseling and Prenatal DiagnosisChapter 10 Genomic Imprinting in the Mouse; Chapter 11 Epilogue of an Unfinished Story; Index. |