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Volume 345:472-473 August 9, 2001 Number 6
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Management of Genetic Syndromes

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Edited by Suzanne B. Cassidy and Judith E. Allanson. 554 pp., illustrated. New York, John Wiley, 2001. $135. ISBN 0-471-31286-X.

This book is a trove of valuable clinical information on 30 of the most common genetic syndromes. The editors state that the book is intended as a resource for primary care physicians, medical specialists, and other physicians, most of whom are not geneticists. Although few nongeneticists are likely to have enough patients with these conditions to justify purchasing the book, it should certainly be on the shelf of every clinical geneticist and in the library of every pediatric tertiary care facility. Copies of individual chapters will probably find their way into many consultation letters.

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