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Diagnostic Genetic Testing: Core Concepts and the Wider Context for Human DNA Analysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030855093)
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xChapter 1: Genetic testing, some themes and some basics
- Brief introduction to genetic testing.
- Themeso Complexity
o Risk and uncertainty
o DNA and identities
o Future promises and limitations
- Genetic basics
o Information storage and copying
o Chromosomes and inheritance patternso Genes in genomes (nuclear and mitochondrial)
o Transcription, translation and the genetic code
o Mutation
- Basic techniques of genetic testing
o DNA extraction
o Hybridisation
o PCR and DNA amplificationo Electrophoresis
o DNA sequencing
Chapter 2: Huntington disease, a severe autosomal recessive disorder
- Huntington disease (HD)
- Mutation mechanism and gain of function
- Trinucleotide repeat expansions
- Penetrance and genotype/phenotype correlation
- Anticipation
- Testing for HD and test metrics
- Rationales for testing- Laboratory error
- Ethical problems (sharing information)
Chapter 3: Autosomal recessive inheritance and cystic fibrosis
- Cystic fibrosis (CF)
- Spectrum of mutations
- Recessive disorders in populations (founder effect)
- Testing for CF- Rationales for testing including neonatal screening
- Prenatal diagnosis and ethical issues
- Genetics and therapy for CF
- Risk and uncertainty
Chapter 4: X-linked inheritance: a question of gender
- Chromosome number / balance (XX vs. XY) and X-inactivation
- DNA methylation and epigenetics
- DMD/BMD (genotype/phenotype correlation)
- Mosaicism- Sharing genetic information
- Androgen receptor gene and different phenotypes
- Genetics and gender
Chapter 5: Cancer genetics: acquired and inherited mutations
- Cancer as a genetic disease
- Tumour suppressors and oncogenes in the control of growth
- Somatic/germline distinction
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Author: David Bourn
ISBN-10: 3030855090
ISBN-13: 9783030855093
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2021
Pages: 131
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
By David Bourn
xDavid Bourn, Ph.D., FRCPath, is a UK-based state registered clinical scientist and the head of an NHS Regional Genetics laboratory, who has worked in the NHS for more than 25 years. Prior to his involvement in diagnostic genetics, he spent some years in research, with his Ph.D. and the bulk of his postdoctoral work in the field of human molecular genetics. His links with Human Genetics Departments go back to the 1980s and in addition to his familiarity with the evolution of genetic testing over the past three decades, he has an enduring interest in the wider implications of this testing.
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