Introduction to Risk Calculation in Genetic Counseling

ISBN-13: 9780192629623 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 230 str.

Ian D. Young

Opis

Genetic counselling is widely accepted as an integral part of the mana gement of every patient with an inherited disorder, and the rapid deve lopments in human and medical genetics have reinforced the importance of competency in risk calculation. Fully updated since the first editi on (1991) this book provides a simple introduction for risk calculatio n for genetics counselling, describing how risks can easily be estima ted or calculated for most counselling situations. Easy-to-use, with w orked examples, this book covers all patterns of inheritance. In this second edition, Introduction to Risk Calculation for Genetic Counselli ng now includes a chapter on cancer genetics, and there are also new s ections on anticipation, gonadal mosaicism, the potential use of susce ptibility loci, three-way chromosome translocations and meiotic drive.

Recenzje

...this new text is to be welcomed as it is readily accessible to the majority of clinicians and is, in essence, a book that should be on the "working bookshelf"!