Essentials of Medical Genomics [Hardcover]

• Six new chapters on vital topics of interest such as multilocus SNP genotyping (SNP chips), RNAi, ChIP-chip, and genomic tiling arrays
• New edition responds to reviewers' and users' desire for greater coverage—now the most useful handbook on the market!
• Practical, concise summary of everything about genomics and emerging technologies a busy physician or medical student should know
• Covers concepts and techniques that are in use in medicine now, as well as those on the cutting-edge of science relevant to medicine, from bioinformatics to DNA diagnostics and proteomics
• NEW: Includes chapter-end exercises, enhancing the utility of the new edition as a textbook
• NEW: PowerPoint slides of images available at instructor website

1 Introduction to Molecular Genetics.

The Principles of Inheritance.

Genes Are Made of DNA.

DNA Structure.

The Central Dogma.

References.

2 Molecular Biology Technology.

Cut, Copy, and Paste.

Restriction Enzymes.

DNA Cloning Is Copying.

PCR Is Cloning without the Bacteria.

DNA Sequencing.

References.

3 Genome Databases.

Genome Sequencing.

Entrez.

BLAST.

Genome Annotation.

Genome Browser.

Human Genetic Diseases.

A System for Naming Genes.

Model Organisms (Comparative Genomics).

Sequencing Other Genomes.