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Previous Volume 352:1394 March 31, 2005 Number 13

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Fifth edition. Edited by Aubrey Milunsky. 1224 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. $225. ISBN 0-8018-7928-0.

For several years, Genetic Disorders and the Fetus has belonged with the classic textbooks on the shelf of every geneticist involved in genetic medicine. Because the book approaches each topic in depth, it is an invaluable reference not only for physicians but also for scientists interested in human fetal development. Topics range from the prenatal diagnosis and screening of chromosomal, biochemical, and multifactorial disorders to preimplantation genetic diagnosis and noninvasive prenatal diagnostic methods that involve the analysis of fetal cells and cell-free nucleic acids in the maternal circulation. The outstanding chapters on genetic counseling, chromosomal disorders and their detection through . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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