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Genetics & Inherited Conditions

Table of Contents

Aarskog syndrome




ABO blood group system




Achondroplasia




Adrenoleukodystrophy




Adrenomyelopathy




Agammaglobulinemia




Aggression




Aging




Alagille syndrome




Albinism




Alcoholism




Alexander disease




Alkaptonuria




Allergies




Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency




Alport syndrome




Altruism




Alzheimer’s disease




Amniocentesis




Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis




Ancient DNA




Andersen’s disease




Androgen insensitivity syndrome




Animal cloning




Aniridia




Ankylosing spondylitis




Anthrax




Antibodies




Antisense RNA




APC gene testing




Apert syndrome




Archaea




Arnold-Chiari syndrome




Artificial selection




Asthma




Ataxia telangiectasia




Atherosclerosis




Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)




Autism




Autoimmune disorders




Autoimmune polyglandular syndrome




Bacterial genetics and cell structure




Bacterial resistance and super bacteria




Barlow’s syndrome




Bartter syndrome




Batten disease




Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome




Behavior




Best disease




Biochemical mutations




Bioethics




Biofertilizers




Bioinformatics




Biological clocks




Biological determinism




Biological weapons




Biopesticides




Biopharmaceuticals




Bipolar affective disorder




Bloom syndrome




Blotting: Southern, Northern, and Western




Brachydactyly




BRAF gene




BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes




Breast cancer




Burkitt’s lymphoma




Canavan disease




Cancer




Cardiomyopathy




Carpenter syndrome




cDNA libraries




Celiac disease




Cell culture: Animal cells




Cell culture: Plant cells




Cell cycle




Cell division




Central dogma of molecular biology




Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis




Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome




Chediak-Higashi syndrome




Chemical mutagens




Chloroplast genes




Cholera




Chorionic villus sampling




Choroideremia




Chromatin packaging




Chromosome mutation




Chromosome structure




Chromosome theory of heredity




Chromosome walking and jumping




Chronic granulomatous disease




Chronic myeloid leukemia




Classical transmission genetics




Cleft lip and palate




Cloning




Cloning: Ethical issues




Cloning vectors




Cockayne syndrome




Colon cancer




Color blindness




Complementation testing




Complete dominance




Congenital adrenal hyperplasia




Congenital defects




Congenital hypothyroidism




Congenital muscular dystrophy




Consanguinity and genetic disease




Corneal dystrophies




Cornelia de Lange syndrome




Cowden syndrome




Cri du chat syndrome




Criminality




Crohn disease




Crouzon syndrome




Cystic fibrosis




Cytokinesis




Dandy-Walker syndrome




Deafness




Depression




Developmental genetics




Diabetes




Diabetes insipidus




Diastrophic dysplasia




DiGeorge syndrome




Dihybrid inheritance




DNA fingerprinting




DNA isolation




DNA repair




DNA replication




DNA sequencing technology




DNA structure and function




Down syndrome




DPC4 gene testing




Duchenne muscular dystrophy




Dwarfism




Dyslexia




Edwards syndrome




Ellis-van Creveld syndrome




Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases




Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis




Epilepsy




Epistasis




Essential tremor




Eugenics




Eugenics: Nazi Germany




Evolutionary biology




Extrachromosomal inheritance




Fabry disease




Familial adenomatous polyposis




Familial Mediterranean fever




Fanconi anemia




Farber disease




Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva




Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)




Forbes disease




Forensic genetics




Fragile X syndrome




Friedreich ataxia




Galactokinase deficiency




Galactosemia




Gaucher disease




Gel electrophoresis




Gender identity




Gene families




Gene regulation: Bacteria




Gene regulation: Eukaryotes




Gene regulation: Lac operon




Gene regulation: Viruses




Gene therapy




Gene therapy: Ethical and economic issues




Genetic code




Genetic code, cracking of




Genetic counseling




Genetic engineering




Genetic engineering: Agricultural applications




Genetic engineering: Historical development




Genetic engineering: Industrial applications




Genetic engineering: Medical applications




Genetic engineering: Risks




Genetic engineering: Social and ethical issues




Genetic load




Genetic screening




Genetic testing




Genetic testing: Ethical and economic issues




Genetically modified foods




Genetics: Historical development




Genetics in television and films




Genome size




Genomic libraries




Genomic medicine




Genomics




Gilbert’s syndrome




Glaucoma




Glucose galactose malabsorption




Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency




Glycogen storage diseases




Gm1-gangliosidosis




Graves’ disease




Gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina




Hardy-Weinberg law




Harvey ras oncogene




Heart disease




Hemochromatosis




Hemophilia




Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer




Hereditary diseases




Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer




Hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome




Hereditary non-VHL clear cell renal cell carcinomas




Hereditary papillary renal cancer




Hereditary spherocytosis




Hereditary xanthinuria




Heredity and environment




Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome




Hermaphrodites




Hers disease




High-yield crops




Hirschsprung’s disease




Holt-Oram syndrome




Homeotic genes




Homocystinuria




Homosexuality




HRAS gene testing




Human genetics




Human Genome Project




Human growth hormone




Hunter disease




Huntington’s disease




Hurler syndrome




Hybridization and introgression




Hybridomas and monoclonal antibodies




Hypercholesterolemia




Hyperphosphatemia




Hypophosphatemic rickets




Icelandic Genetic Database




Ichthyosis




Immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM




Immunogenetics




In vitro fertilization and embryo transfer




Inborn errors of metabolism




Inbreeding and assortative mating




Incomplete dominance




Infantile agranulocytosis




Infertility




Influenza




Insurance




Intelligence




Ivemark syndrome




Jansky-Bielschowsky disease




Joubert syndrome




Kearns-Sayre syndrome




Kennedy disease




Klinefelter syndrome




Knockout genetics and knockout mice




Krabbé disease




Lactose intolerance




Lamarckianism




Lateral gene transfer




Leigh syndrome




Lesch-Nyhan syndrome




Leukodystrophy




Li-Fraumeni syndrome




Limb girdle muscular dystrophy




Linkage maps




Long QT syndrome




Lynch syndrome




McArdle’s disease




Macular degeneration




Maple syrup urine disease




Marfan syndrome




Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome




Meacham syndrome




Melanoma




Mendelian genetics




Menkes syndrome




Metachromatic leukodystrophy




Metafemales




Microarray analysis




Miscegenation and antimiscegenation laws




Mitochondrial diseases




Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome




Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes (MELAS)




Mitochondrial genes




Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE)




Mitosis and meiosis




MLH1 gene




Model organism: Arabidopsis thaliana




Model organism: Caenorhabditis elegans




Model organism: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii




Model organism: Danio rerio




Model organism: Drosophila melanogaster




Model organism: Escherichia coli




Model organism: Mus musculus




Model organism: Neurospora crassa




Model organism: Saccharomyces cerevisiae




Model organism: Xenopus laevis




Model organisms




Molecular clock hypothesis




Molecular genetics




Monohybrid inheritance




MSH genes




Multiple alleles




Multiple endocrine neoplasias




Mutagenesis and cancer




Mutation and mutagenesis




Myelodysplastic syndromes




Myeloperoxidase deficiency




Myoclonic epilepsy associated with ragged red fibers (MERRF)




Myotonic dystrophy




Narcolepsy




Natural selection




Nemaline myopathy




Neural tube defects




Neurofibromatosis




Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome




Niemann-Pick disease




Noncoding RNA molecules




Nondisjunction and aneuploidy




Noonan syndrome




Norrie disease




Obesity




Oncogenes




One gene-one enzyme hypothesis




Opitz-Frias syndrome




Organ transplants and HLA genes




Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency




Orotic aciduria




Osteogenesis imperfecta




Ovarian cancer




Palmoplantar keratoderma




Pancreatic cancer




Pancreatitis




Parkinson disease




Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria




Parthenogenesis




Patau syndrome




Patents on life-forms




Paternity tests




Pattern baldness




Pearson syndrome




Pedigree analysis




Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease




Pendred syndrome




Penetrance




Periodic paralysis syndrome




Phenylketonuria (PKU)




Plasmids




PMS genes




Polycystic kidney disease




Polydactyly




Polygenic inheritance




Polymerase chain reaction




Polyploidy




Pompe disease




Population genetics




Porphyria




Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes




Prenatal diagnosis




Prion diseases: Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome




Progressive external ophthalmoplegia




Prostate cancer




Protein structure




Protein synthesis




Proteomics




Pseudogenes




Pseudohermaphrodites




Pseudohypoparathyroidism




Punctuated equilibrium




Purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency




Pyloric stenosis




Quantitative inheritance




Race




RB1 gene




Refsum disease




Reiter’s syndrome




Repetitive DNA




Restriction enzymes




Retinitis pigmentosa




Retinoblastoma




Rett syndrome




Reverse transcriptase




Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)




RFLP analysis




Rh incompatibility and isoimmunization




RhoGD12 gene




RNA interference




RNA isolation




RNA structure and function




RNA transcription and mRNA processing




RNA world




Robert syndrome




Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome




Sandhoff disease




Sanfilippo syndrome




Schizophrenia




SCLC1 gene




Severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome




Shotgun cloning




Sickle-cell disease




Signal transduction




Small-cell lung cancer




Smallpox




Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome




Sociobiology




Speciation




Spinal muscular atrophy




Spinocerebellar ataxia




SRY gene




Stargardt’s disease




Stem cells




Sterilization laws




Steroid hormones




Sulfite oxidase deficiency




Synthetic antibodies




Synthetic genes




T-cell immunodeficiency syndrome




Tangier disease




Tarui’s disease




Tay-Sachs disease




Telomeres




Thalassemia




Thalidomide and other teratogens




Totipotency




Tourette syndrome




Transgenic organisms




Transposable elements




Tuberous sclerosis




Tumor-suppressor genes




Turner syndrome




Twin studies




Tyrosinemia type I




Usher syndrome




Vanishing white matter disease




Viral genetics




Viroids and virusoids




Von Gierke disease




Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome




Von Willebrand disease




Waardenburg syndrome




Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM)




Weill-Marchesani syndrome




Werner syndrome




Williams syndrome




Wilms’ tumor




Wilms’ tumor aniridia-genitourinary anomalies-mental retardation (WAGR) syndrome




Wilson disease




Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome




Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome




Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome




Wolman disease




X chromosome inactivation




Xenotransplants




Xeroderma pigmentosum




XYY syndrome




Zellweger syndrome