| Description |
1 online resource (x, 247 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Biographies of disease
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Biographies of disease.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Prologue; 1 The First Descriptions of Thalassaemia; 2 Thalassaemia as a Genetic Disease; 3 Thalassaemia as a Genetic Disorder of Haemoglobin Production; 4 The Diversity and Pathology of the Thalassaemias; 5 Early Improvements in the Management of Children with Thalassaemia; 6 Thalassaemia and the Dawn of Molecular Medicine; 7 The Control and Management of Thalassaemia in the Cellular and Molecular Era; 8 The Commonest Genetic Diseases: Was Haldane Right?; 9 Epilogue: Thalassaemia and Molecular Medicine; Glossary; Bibliography and Further Reading; General Index. |
| Summary |
Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was established. Written by Sir David Weatherall, an expert in molecular medicine and the founder of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford, this tells the story of early reports of the disease, historical accounts, the identification of the disease as having an inherited basis, early work on thalassaemia as a disorder of the synthesis of haemoglobin, and from the 1960s with the rise of molecular biology, the study of the condition at the DNA level. The commonality. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Thalassemia -- Popular works.
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Thalassemia. |
| Genre/Form |
Popular works.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weatherall, D.J. Thalassaemia. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780199565603 (OCoLC)501399857 |
| ISBN |
9780191573187 (electronic book) |
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0191573183 (electronic book) |
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9780199565603 (Cloth) |
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0199565600 (Cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9786612774959 |
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