Pocket Guide to Gene Level Diagnostics in Clinical Practice

PART 1: GENERAL ASPECTS OF GENE LEVEL -- EVALUATION. SURVEY OF TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS -- CHAPTER 1.1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 1.2 A Survey of Newer Gene Probing Techniques -- CHAPTER 1.3 Prenatal Diagnosis -- CHAPTER 1.4 Aging -- CHAPTER 1.5 DNA Repair -- CHAPTER 1.6 Drug Resistance -- CHAPTER 1.7 Metastasis -- PART 2: GENE LEVEL EVALUATION OF SELECTED -- DISORDERS OF THE HEART, LUNG, GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT AND TUMORS OF THE HEAD AND NECK -- CHAPTER 2.1 Atherosclerosis and Comonary Heart Disease -- CHAPTER 2.2 Gastrointestinal Diseases -- CHAPTER 2.3 Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- CHAPTER 2.4 Pancreas -- CHAPTER 2.5 Cystic Fibrosis -- CHAPTER 2.6 Lung -- CHAPTER 2.7 Tumors of the Head and Neck -- PART 3: GENE LEVEL EVALUATION OF SELECTED -- BREAST, GYNECOLOGIC AND UROLOGIC TUMORS -- CHAPTER 3.1 Breast -- CHAPTER 3.2 Tumors of the Uterine Cervix and Endometrium -- CHAPTER 3.3 Ovarian Neoplasms -- CHAPTER 3.4 Prostrate Neoplasms -- CHAPTER 3.5 Kidney and Urinary Bladder -- CHAPTER 3.6 Wilms' Tumor -- PART 4: GENE LEVEL EVALUATION OF SELECTED -- ENDOCRINE DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 4.1 Diabetes Mellitus -- CHAPTER 4.2 Thyroid and Parathyroid Disorders -- CHAPTER 4.3 Adrenal Gland and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 1 and 2 -- PART 5: GENE LEVEL EVALUATION OF SELECTED -- NEUROLOGIC AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 5.1 Muscle, Bone, and Skin Disorders -- CHAPTER 5.2 Neurological and Mental Disorders -- PART 6: GENE LEVEL EVALUATION OF INFECTIOUS -- DISEASES -- CHAPTER 6.1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 6.2 Enteric Pathogens -- CHAPTER 6.3 Respiratory Pathogens -- CHAPTER 6.4 Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- CHAPTER 6.5 Pathogens Causing Multisystem Infections -- CHAPTER 6.6 Pathogens Transmitted by Arthropods -- CHAPTER 6.7 Parasites -- PART 7: SELECTED METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF -- GENE LEVEL EVALUATION IN HEMATOLOGY -- CHAPTER 7.1 Hemoglobinopathies -- CHAPTER 7.2 Coagulopathies -- CHAPTER 7.3 Lymphoid and Myeloid Malignancies -- SUPPLEMENT 1: MANUFACTURERS -- Commercial Sources of Molecular Biological Reagents and Diagnostics -- SUPPLEMENT 2: TESTING LABORATORIES -- Selected Laboratories Offering Testing Services in Molecular Genetics and Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases at the Gene Level -- SUPPLEMENT 3: PCR LICENSEES -- Institutions in the U.S. Licensed by Roche Molecular Systems to Perform Human Diagnostic Services by Polymerase Chain Reaction Technology -- SUPPLEMENT 4: EFFORTS OF PROFESSIONAL -- ORGANIZATIONS -- Medical Genetics: the Current State of the Field -- Quality Assurance in Clinical Laboratory Molecular Pathology Testing -- SUPPLEMENT 5: DNA IN FORENSIC PRACTICE -- DNA: Technology in Forensic Science: Executive Summary -- Legislative Guidelines for DNA Databases -- INDEX.