1. SECTIONS:
2. preface & acknowledgements
3. genetics at a glance
4. contacts, support & testing
5. testing & pregnancy
6. newborn screening
7. cancer in the family
8. cardiovascular conditions
9. chromosomal conditions
10. clotting & bleeding conditions
11. cystic fibrosis
12. diabetes
13. fragile X syndrome and other causes of developmental delay
14. haemoglobinopathies
15. hereditary haemochromatosis
16. neurofibromatosis
17. neurological conditions
18. psychiatric conditions
19. genetics in practice
20. emerging genetic technologies
21. glossary

Bibliography

 

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Geneclinics, National Institutes of Health
http://www.geneclinics.org
Accessed May 2005. Search terms Haemophilia A and Haemopilia B under GeneReviews.

 

Crowther MA, Kelton JG, 2003. Congenital thrombophilic states associated with venous thrombosis: a qualitative overview and proposed classification system. Annals of Internal Medicine, 138:128-34.

 

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM (TM). McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=OMIM Accessed March 2006.

 

Seligsohn U, Lubetsky A, 2001. Genetic susceptibility to venous thrombosis. New England Journal of Medicine, 344: 1222-31.

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