fraser f clarke victor mckusick (2 résultats)

Hardcover. 450 p. Good condition. Reading pages are clean and without marks. Retired library exemplar, with the usual marking. Corners slightly rubbed or bumped. Still good copy. 9789021901350 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1220.

Second printing. 8vo. xvi, 450 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Frederick A. Frye bookplate. Good. A testament to the national public health policy, the support for medical research and benefitting the health of new born infants. Includes contributions from numerous geneticists. / The editors: Frank Clarke Fraser OC FRSC was a Canadian medical geneticist. Spanning the fields of science and medicine, he was Canada's first medical geneticist, one of the creators of the discipline of medical genetics in North America, and laid the foundations in the field of Genetic Counselling, which has enhanced the lives of patients worldwide. Among his many accomplishments, Fraser pioneered work in the genetics of cleft palate and popularized the concept of multifactorial disease. / Victor Almon McKusick was an American internist and medical geneticist, and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its use for studying congenital diseases. He is well known for his studies of the Amish. He was the original author and, until his death, remained chief editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM) and its online counterpart Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM). He is widely known as the "father of medical genetics.".