RT Book, Section
A1 Pyeritz, Reed E.
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 McQuaid, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1184181526
T1 Overview: Genetic & Genomic Disorders
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2022
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264269389
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1184181526
RD 2024/04/18
AB Human  genetics  is  the  scientific  study  of  the  variations  among  people  that  are  determined  by  the  heritable  units  called  genes,  and  how  variations  due  to  genes  occur  and  are  transmitted  in  individuals,  families,  and  populations.  While  the  discipline  of  genetics  had  its  origins  with  Gregor  Mendel  in  the  mid-nineteenth  century,  human  genetics  began  in  the  early  twentieth  century  and  remains  one  of  the  most  vibrant  of  the  biologic  sciences.  Genomics,  on  the  other  hand,  had  its  origins  much  more  recently,  the  term  first  being  coined  in  1986,  and  subsumes  the  study  of  the  organization,  function,  and  interpretation  of  all  of  an  organism's  genetic  material.  Genomics  has  largely  been  stimulated  and  driven  by  technologies  that  enable  the  sequencing  of  DNA  and  the  comparative  analysis  of  vast  amounts  of  sequence  data.  Both  fields  are  transforming  our  understanding  of  human  biology,  medicine,  and  public  health.