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Essentials of Medical Genomics


by Stuart M. Brown, John G. Hay, Harry Ostrer

List Price: $89.95
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Sales Rank: 670374
Studio: Wiley-Blackwell
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 440
Publication Date: October 20, 2008
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell


EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
  • 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


CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 7 reviews)

many potential gains in treatment  
If you are not a biologist or MD, and want to see where the application of genomics to medicine is going, try Brown's book. In clear language, he and other writers explain the key ideas and promises in this field. Like what can be done with massive genomic databases, by aiding the search for inherited diseases, and isolating these to certain places in the DNA.

One chapter looks at gene therapy. Currently, still mostly speculative. Much remains to be done to make it viable for many people. But this chapter is perhaps the most far reaching, if its potential can be fully realised. Related to this is another chapter about proteomics, which is another buzzword. We see that protein structures are another field, closely related, that also holds big promises for understanding and treatments.
October 25, 2006

Highly Recommended  
"...this book was exactly what I was looking for: a high-level overview of genomic technologies and their application...Brown's book is highly recommended..." (Pharmaceutical Research, Vol. 20, No. 6, June 2003)
September 03, 2003

Recommended Book  
"readable account of the underpinnings of genomics and its medical applications...a clearly written book that makes a complex discipline understandable..." (New England Journal of Medicine, July 24, 2003)
August 19, 2003

Good Book  
"...a good purchase for...academic or medical libraries as well as large public ones." (E-Streams, Vol. 6, No. 5, May 2003)
July 24, 2003

Useful Book  
"It will be quite useful to anyone from other fields who is interested in a taste of what emerging technologies in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics can bring to bear on questions of potential importance in biomedical research." --American Journal of Human Genetics
May 28, 2003


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