Description
New Clinical Genetics continues to offer the most innovative case-based approach to investigation, diagnosis, and management in clinical genetics.
New Clinical Genetics is used worldwide as a textbook for medical students, but also as an essential guide to the field for genetic counselors, physician assistants, clinical and nurse geneticists, and students studying healthcare courses allied to medicine. Readers love the integrated case-based approach which ties the science to real-life clinical scenarios to really aid understanding.
Clinical genetics is a fast-moving field and there have been many advances in the few years since the previous edition was published. This 4th edition has been completely updated and revised to reflect new science, new techniques and new ways of thinking.
Nowhere is this more clear than in the chapter discussing genetics services which is now significantly expanded to reflect the increasing role of genomic medicine and the use of multidisciplinary teams in the management of patients with genetic disorders.
The unique case-based structure and format remains the same, but substantial new material has been added to cover:
- polygenic risk scores – now starting to become useful clinical service tools
- preimplantation diagnosis
- noninvasive prenatal diagnosis
- companion diagnostics for prescribed drugs
- liquid biopsies in cancer
- epigenetics and gene regulation
- the widespread use of next-generation sequencing as a routine diagnostic tool
- the checking of a patient’s whole exome for the cause of their problem
Examination Copies
You can order an electronic or paper exam copy (or both if you prefer).
If you just want to have a quick skim through the book, we would be grateful if you would start with an electronic copy – it saves a lot of money, time and resources for us
To request an electronic exam copy, please fill in the electronic exam copy form.
If you will seriously consider recommending New Clinical Genetics as your main text, then we will be pleased to provide you with a paper exam copy.
To request a paper exam copy, email Simon Watkins (simon.watkins@scionpublishing.com) with the following information:
– Course name
– Course start date
– Enrollment (number of students taking the class)
– Current recommended texts
– Your mailing address (including home address if you are working from home)
(Exam copies are sent only to academic staff/faculty teaching an appropriate course at a recognised instituion and are sent at our sole discretion).
Online-only Chapter 15
To access the free online-only chapter, Chapter 15 How to use linkage to map a disease gene, please click on the ‘resources’ tab above.
