Md Milunsky

Your Genes, Your Health (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Family Guide That Could Save Your Life

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

New advances in genetics have dramatically expanded our ability to avoid, prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide range of disorders. Now, more than ever, families need to know about these new discoveries, especially as there are some 7,000 rare genetic diseases that afflict about 1 in 12 of us. In Your Genes, Your Health, Aubrey Milunsky provides an invaluable and authoritative guide to what you should know about your genes. Illustrated with poignant family histories that underscore the lifesaving importance of knowing one's family medical history and ethnic origin, the book highlights the importance of recognizing seemingly unrelated disorders in a family as due to the same gene mutation and it outlines the key genetic tests needed for diagnosis, detection of carriers, and prenatal diagnosis. Many genetic disorders are discussed including cancer, heart disease, autism, mental illness, birth defects, neurologic disorders, diabetes, obesity and much more. The message of this book is clear--know your family history, be cognizant of your ethnic origins, seek appropriate consultations, and opt for meaningful genetic tests. Recognition of your risk(s) enables prompt preemptive action. By knowing your genes, you may save your life and the lives of those you love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199792153
• Artikelnr.: 38135052

Autorenporträt

Aubrey Milunsky, MD, D.S.c. is Professor of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pathology, and the Director of the Center for Human Genetics, at Boston University School of Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* 1. Why and What You Should Know
* 2. Too Many or Too Few Chromosomes
* 3. X's and Y's: The Sex Chromosomes
* 4. Chromosome Rearrangements
* 5. Blueprints: You and Your Genes
* 6. How Genes are Transmitted
* 7. Prenatal Diagnosis
* 8. When Good Cells Go Wrong
* 9. Matters of the Heart
* 10. Consequences of a Failure to Diagnose
* 11. Genes Gone Missing
* 12. Earlier and More Severe Genetic Disorders
* 13. The Determination to Have a Healthy Child
* 14. Irrevocability and Acceptance
* 15. Ancestral Genetic Burdens
* 16. Puzzling Fevers
* 17. Bleeding and Clotting
* 18. Blood Vessels that Burst
* 19. Connectivity: Abnormal Brain Connections
* 20. Skin: A Mirror to the Brain
* 21. Genes with Signatures
* 22. Maternal Inheritance and Inevitability
* 23. Harmful Maternal Effects on the Fetus
* 24. Patterns of Anomalies
* 25. Treatment Options
* 26. Sugar and Metals
* 27. Obesity: A Weighty Burden
* 28. Hypertension
* Frequently Asked Questions
* Appendix 1: Cancer Family Syndromes for which Preimplantation Genetic
Diagnoses have been Performed
* Appendix 2: Genetic Disorders with Germline Mosacism
* Appendix 3: Disorders with Dynamic Mutations
* Appendix 4: Genetic Disorders that show Anticipation
* Appendix 5: Guidelines for Presymptomatic or Predictive Testing
* Appendix 6: Genetic Disorders in which Dilatation of the Aorta may
Occur
* Appendix 7: Genetic Disorders with Imprinting
* Appendix 8: Genetic Resources and Support Organizations
* Index