Background and purpose During the years prior to the turn of the century, scientific and
medical attention for genetic disorders was mainly focused on understanding rare single …

Background: Personalized healthcare is expected to yield promising results, with a
paradigm shift toward more personalization in the practice of medicine. This emerging field …

Objective To determine whether perceived age correlates with survival and important age
related phenotypes. Design Follow-up study, with survival of twins determined up to January …

Incorporating the latest developments from the field, this eagerly awaited new edition once
again provides an important and comprehensive analysis of the key issues in public health …

В доступной форме в книге изложены основные события, произошедшие в
медицинской генетике и в молекулярной медицине после расшифровки генома …

In recent years, developments in genomics technologies have led to the rise of commercial
personal genome testing (PGT): broad genome-wide testing for multiple diseases …

Stem cell tourism is a small but growing part of the thriving global medical tourism
marketplace. Much stem cell research remains at the experimental stage, with clinical trials …

The clinical interpretation of laboratory results is an integral part of laboratory services.
However, while many clinical laboratories provide comments of some form or other in their …

Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a
variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health …

Recently, a number of commercial companies are offering preconceptional carrier tests
directly-to-consumers. This offer raises a number of concerns and issues above and beyond …