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In 1901 William Bateson, Professor of Biology at Cambridge,
published a renewed version of a lecture which he had delivered the
year before to the Royal Horticultural Society in London (reprinted
in the book as an appendix). In this lecture he recognized the
importance of the work completed by Gregor Mendel in 1865, and
brought it to the notice of the scientific world. Upon reading
Bateson's paper, Archibald Garrod realized the relevance of
Mendel's laws to human disease and in 1902 introduced Mendelism to
medical genetics. The first part of A Century of Mendelism in Human
Genetics takes a historical perspective of the first 50 years of
Mendelism, including the bitter argument between the Mendelians and
the biometricians. The second part discusses human genetics since
1950, ending with a final chapter examining genetics and the future
of medicine. The book considers the genetics of both single-gene
and complex diseases, human cancer genetics, genetic linkage, and
natural selection in human populations. Besides being of general
medical significance, this book will be of particular interest to
departments of genetics and of medical genetics, as well as to
historians of science and medicine.
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The Private Letters
Robert Peel, George Peel
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Discovery Miles 9 860
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