Talk:Molecular Development - Genetics

NCBI Bookshelf

Genetics for Surgeons

Remedica Genetics Series

Patrick J Morrison, MD, FRCPCH, FFPHMI and Roy AJ Spence, OBE, MA, MD, FRCS.

University of Ulster, Queen's University Belfast and Belfast City Hospital Trust London: Remedica; 2005. ISBN-10: 1-901-34669-2 Copyright © 2005, Remedica.

Excerpt

This text is written in non technical language in three main sections: a general overview of the principles in genetics, a section on common genetic disorders that surgeons will encounter, a third section on familial cancers, which, in the case of breast, bowel, and ovarian cancers, account for around 10% of the cancers that surgeons encounter. A fourth section deals with the topics that surgeons and anesthetists should both know, while the glossary at the end of the book allows a quick reference to increasingly common genetics terms.