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Neurogenetics
edited by Stefan M. Pulst, MD, DrMed, $115, 458 pp, with illus, ISBN 0-19-512975-X, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Arch Neurol. 2002;59:1970-1971.
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Neurologists frequently ask neurogeneticists for recommendations for 2 types of books: books detailing recent advances in neurogenetics and books that teach human genetics methodology. Neurogenetics, edited by Dr Pulst, is the best book available that fulfills these requests. This book is a successor to Neurogenetics: Principles & Practice (Roger Rosenberg, Raven Press, 1985); Molecular Genetics in Diseases of Brain, Nerve, and Muscle (edited by Lewis P. Rowland, Donald S. Wood, Eric Schon, and Salvatore DiMauro, Oxford University Press, 1989); and is complementary to The Genetics of Neurological Disorders (Michael Baratser, Oxford University Press, 1997). Neurogenetics is a welcome update to the field.
This book contains chapters that cover diseases with simple patterns of inheritance (channelopathies, neuropathies, muscular dystrophies, trinucleotide repeat disease, phakomatoses, hereditary spastic paraplegias, and mitochondrial disorders). In aggregate, these conditions represent only a small fraction of the patients typically seen by neurologists. However, an understanding of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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