Overview
- Editors:
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Harry Harris
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Human Genetics, University College London, London, England
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Kurt Hirschhorn
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The City University of New York, USA
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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- H. Hugh Fudenberg, Noel L. Warner
Pages 131-209
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- Charles R. Scriver, Peter Hechtman
Pages 211-274
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Back Matter
Pages 337-339
About this book
During the last few years the science of human genetics has been expanding almost explosively. Original papers dealing with different aspects of the subject are appearing at an increasingly rapid rate in a very wide range of journals, and it becomes more and more difficult for the geneticist and virtually impossible for the non geneticist to keep track of the develop ments. Furthermore, new observations and discoveries relevant to an overall understanding of the subject result from investigations using very diverse techniques and methodologies and originating in a variety of different disciplines. Thus, investigations in such various fields as enzymology, immunology, protein chemistry, cytology, pediatrics, neurology, internal medicine, anthropology, and mathematical and statistical genetics, to name but a few, have each contributed results and ideas of general significance to the study of human genetics. Not surprisingly it is often difficult for workers in one branch of the subject to assess and assimilate findings made in another. This can be a serious limiting factor on the rate of progress. Thus, there appears to be a real need for critical review articles which summarize the positions reached in different areas, and it is hoped that "Advances in Human Genetics" will help to meet this requirement. Each of the contributors has been asked to write an account of the position that has been reached in the investigations of a specific topic in one of the branches of human genetics.
Editors and Affiliations
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Human Genetics, University College London, London, England
Harry Harris
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The City University of New York, USA
Kurt Hirschhorn
