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THE GENETICS OF RENAL DISEASE
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| By: |
Frances Flinter (Editor), Eamon Maher (Editor), Anand Saggar-Malik (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£305.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0192631462 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780192631466 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 January, 2004 |
| Series: |
Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics 48 |
| Pages: |
582 |
| Description: |
This book covers renal disorders which have a genetic basis, starting from the perspective of clinical and medical genetics, rather than taking as its primary focus the clinical management of these disorders by nephrologists. It is a practical manual which clinicians seeing patients with inherited renal diseases will find themselves referring to often. |
| Synopsis: |
Renal genetic disorders may become apparent at any time in life and recognition of specific renal disorders is important in allowing accurate genetic counselling. Active counselling requires knowledge about the natural history of the disorder, an understanding of the genetic component and mode of inheritance, risk of the disorder in other family members, information about patient attitudes towards family planning and the possibility of pre-natal diagnosis. The Genetics of Renal Disease provides a comprehensive account of both the hereditary nephropathies and more generalised disorders, which may affect the renal tract. It includes comprehensive guidelines from an international group of authors on renal function and development, chromosomal disorders, dysmorphic syndromes, inherited predisposition to kidney cancer and gene therapy for renal cancer. Specific chapters deal with individual renal tract disorders such as an extensive discussion of Alport's disease, cystic renal diseases, the Bardet-Biedl and Alstrom syndromes.Each section gives a brief description of the clinical and pathological features of a particular disorder, followed by a review of the genetics of the disorder including incidence, inheritance of familial occurrence, genetic linkage and gene assignment, and prenatal diagnosis and carrier detection. Original studies are extensively quoted and are referenced at the end of each section. There are a great many dysmorphic syndromes that involve the urinary tract. These are incorporated within the book. |
| Illustrations: |
8pp colour plates; numerous black and white photographs and line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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