Genetics in medicine

Genetics is fundamental to the basic sciences of preclinical medical education and has important applications to clinical medicine, public health, and medical research. With recognition of the role of genetics in medicine has come the problem of providing a place for it in the undergraduate curriculum, a problem which is as yet only partly solved in most medical schools. This book has been written to introduce the medical student to the principles of genetics as they apply to medicine, and to give him/her a background for independent reading of the extensive and rapidly growing literature in the field, and to indicate some of its fruitful clinical applications.