Genetics: References and Sources

Figure acknowledgements

• US National Human Genome Research Institute: Figures 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7
• US Department of Energy Human Genome Program: Figure 3
• US National Institute of Health Genetics Home Reference: Figure 9
• PHGU (Philippa Brice): Figures 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 17
• Population needs and genetic services. An outline guide. Department of Health (1991): Table 1
• PHGU (Ron Zimmern): Figures 14 and 15

Further information (on-line resources)

• Genetics home reference - a useful lay-level overview from the US National Library of Medicine. http://www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ghr/page/Home
• DNA from the beginning - an animated tutorial from the DNA Learning Center in Cold Spring Harbor http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/index.html
• Beyond discovery: human gene testing - a narrative view of everything from basic molecular biology to human genetic disease and genetic testing, produced by the US National Academy of Sciences http://www.beyonddiscovery.org/
• Access Excellence image gallery - dozens of annotated illustrations of processes in basic molecular biology and genetics. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/
• The Genetic Science Learning Center - at the University of Utah http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/
• National Human Genome Research Institute: Health - information about genetics, inherited disease research and the future of health and genetics research. http://www.genome.gov/Health/
• Understanding gene testing - US Department of Health and Human Services (Access Excellence Resource Center). http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/NIH/index.html
• Medicine and the new genetics - US Department of Energy (Oak Ridge National Laboratory website). http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/medicine/medicine.html
• GeneTests medical genetics knowledge base - access to GeneReviews, genetic disease profiles. http://www.geneclinics.org
• Genes and Disease - US National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/
• On-Line Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) - complete catalogue of all identified disease genes and the associated diseases. http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/

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