"This is an exceptional book for clinicians, clinical laboratorians, and clinical researchers at many different levels. It employs specific diseases and phenotypes to illustrate important genetic concepts and educate about laboratory approaches to genetic diagnosis and gene discovery. The chapters are succinct and well-organized, and the many color illustrations enhance the readers' comprehension of even the most arcane and complex genetic and genomic phenomena. Similarly, chapters on the laboratory approach to diagnosis provide practical information on various genetic and genomic platforms and describe the underlying technologies, providing the reader the tools to understand and apply genomic analyses in both the clinical and research setting ." -- V. Reid Sutton, M.D., Professor of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
1. Introduction to concepts of genetics and genomics 2. Karyotyping as the first genomic approach 3. Genomic disorders 4. Genomic sequencing of rare diseases 5. Recessive diseases and founder genetics 6. Dominant and de novo disorders 7. X-linked and mitochondrial disorders 8. Mosaicism in rare disease 9. Dual diagnoses of rare disorders 10. Statistical approaches to rare disease analyses 11. Transcriptomics in rare diseases 12. Other omics approaches to the study of rare diseases 13. Challenges and opportunities in rare diseases research