(Modern Endocrinology Series.) Edited by John D. Baxter, Shlomo Melmed, and Maria I. New. 763 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. $169. ISBN 0-7817-1496-6.
Genetics, until recently the domain of molecular biologists,mathematicians, anthropologists, forensic scientists, pediatricians,and families concerned about rare and esoteric diseases, todaycaptures the imagination of a wide spectrum of basic scientistsand clinicians. The principal reasons for this remarkable shiftare the explosion of new knowledge about the genetic basis ofnumerous diseases, the rapid progress in sequencing and assemblingthe human and mouse genomes, and the insights gained from transgenicand gene-knockout animals. The clarity that modern moleculargenetics has brought to our understanding of the nature andcausation of previously obscure syndromes is stunning. The mysteriesof . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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