PHYSICIANS AND GENETICS

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Biology for Physicians: Formal Genetics and Population Genetics

Mendel’s laws, phenotype and genotype, recessive and dominant. Do these terms sound familiar to you from your biology lessons? This article regarding formal genetics will introduce you to all important genetic fundamentals regarding biology that you need to know as a physician. By studying and revising the contents of this article, you will be in a better position to do well both in your precli...

Pneumoviruses: Molecular Genetics and Reverse Genetics

Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...

Clinical Genetics. A Source Book for Physicians

This multiauthored text, directed to the contemporary practicing physician, is a compendium of genetic information relevant to clinical practice. It is organized into four parts: fundamentals of clinical genetics, multisystem disease, organ system disease, and genetic counseling. It contains a good review of the basics with careful attention to the usual sources of confusion: statistics, geneti...

Molecular Genetics and Epidemiology of Vitiligo

Background: Vitiligo is an acquired, idiopathic, and common depigmentation disorder of the skin that affects people of all ages and both sexes equally in the worldwide. Although etiology of the disease is unknown, there are theories such as environment and genetic factors. Methods: In this article, we collected and summarized the appropriate manuscripts regarding the epidemiology and gene...