Thalassaemia: the biography
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Main Author: Weatherall, David 1933-2018 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
List of Illustrations; Prologue; 1 The First Descriptions of Thalassaemia; 2 Thalassaemia as a Genetic Disease; 3 Thalassaemia as a Genetic Disorder of Haemoglobin Production; 4 The Diversity and Pathology of the Thalassaemias; 5 Early Improvements in the Management of Children with Thalassaemia; 6 Thalassaemia and the Dawn of Molecular Medicine; 7 The Control and Management of Thalassaemia in the Cellular and Molecular Era; 8 The Commonest Genetic Diseases: Was Haldane Right?; 9 Epilogue: Thalassaemia and Molecular Medicine; Glossary; Bibliography and Further Reading; General Index
Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was established. Written by Sir David Weatherall, an expert in molecular medicine and the founder of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford, this tells the story of early reports of the disease, historical accounts, the identification of the disease as having an inherited basis, early work on thalassaemia as a disorder of the synthesis of haemoglobin, and from the 1960s with the rise of molecular biology, the study of the condition at the DNA level. The commonality
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 247 pages)
ISBN:0191573183
9780191573187

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