The idea for this book grew from two earlier efforts, The Human
Genome (TS; BIOS Scientific Publishers, 1992) and Medical
Genetics, an Illustrated Outline (APR; Gower Medical Publishing, 1989).
In these small books we tried to develop a treatment of human genetics based on
understanding the structure and function of the normal human genome. Traditionally,
textbooks of human genetics tended to start by considering meiosis and the way
diseases segregate in pedigrees, whilst textbooks of molecular genetics rarely
emphasized human topics. Until recently this was inevitable because so little was
understood about the normal human genome. The Human Genome Project has changed all
that, and the present book is an attempt to provide a comprehensive integrated study
of human molecular genetics.
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