Genomic Disorders: The Genomic Basis of Disease

Genomic Disorders: The Genomic Basis of Disease
ISBN-10
1597450391
ISBN-13
9781597450393
Category
Medical
Pages
426
Language
English
Published
2007-11-10
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
James R. Lupski, Pawel T. Stankiewicz

Description

A grand summary and synthesis of the tremendous amount of data now available in the post genomic era on the structural features, architecture, and evolution of the human genome. The authors demonstrate how such architectural features may be important to both evolution and to explaining the susceptibility to those DNA rearrangements associated with disease. Technologies to assay for such structural variation of the human genome and to model genomic disorders in mice are also presented. Two appendices detail the genomic disorders, providing genomic features at the locus undergoing rearrangement, their clinical features, and frequency of detection.

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