Human genetics and genomics: a practical guide

Finally meeting the need for a laboratory manual on human genetics, this practical guide is the perfect companion title to all major standard textbooks on the subject. The authors all have a high-level research background and are actively involved in teaching and counseling. Based on a standard curriculum in human genetics, each chapter equals one practical unit of the course and topics range from basics in human inheritance to genetics in major disease clusters and from bioinformatics and personalized medicine to genetic counseling.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Exploring Online Genetics Sources -- Background -- Human Genome Project -- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) -- UCSC Genome Browser -- The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) -- Roadmap Epigenomic Project -- References -- Exercise Questions -- Additional Exercise Questions -- Chapter 2 Observation of Human Inheritance -- Background -- Mendelian Genetics -- The Transmission of Hereditary Characteristics -- Mendelian Disorders -- References -- Exercise Questions

Additional Exercise Questions -- Chapter 3 Reading, Understanding, and Constructing Human Pedigrees -- Background -- Basic Pedigree Nomenclature -- Modes of Inheritance -- Autosomal Recessive Inheritance -- Pedigrees Representing Autosomal Recessive Inheritance -- Autosomal Dominant Inheritance -- Pedigrees Representing Autosomal Dominant Inheritance -- X-Linked Recessive Inheritance -- Pedigrees Representing X-Linked Recessive Inheritance -- X-Linked Dominant Inheritance -- Pedigrees Representing X-Linked Dominant Inheritance -- Y-Linked Inheritance -- Pedigrees Representing Y-Linked Inheritance

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