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by Victor fonasescu and Hans Zellweger, 481 pp, with illus, $65, New York, Raven Press, 1983.

John M. Opitz, MD, Reviewer
Helena, Mont

Arch Neurol. 1985;42(11):1040.

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This book is the distillation of the wisdom and experience of two long and distinguished careers in pediatrie neurogenetics, one of the most difficult of branches of biomedicai knowledge and one that has proved immensely fruitful for the field of medical genetics in general. Neurologists everywhere ought to be proud of the contributions to human genetics made by their colleagues, beginning with the late Oscar Vogt of Berlin, who was entrusted by the Soviet government with the study of Lenin's brain and who (together with Timoféeff-Ressovsky) coined the terms penetrance and expressivity, and including such luminaries as Gerhard Koch of Nuremberg-Erlangen, West Germany, Paul Emil Becker of Göttingen, West Germany, and the authors of the present book.

Drs Ionasescu and Zellweger are senior faculty members at the University of Iowa Medical School, with the former having been trained in Bucharest, Rumania, by George Marinesco, and the latter in Zurich by . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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