Oxford handbook of genetics

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF GENETICS

• The essential guide to genetics for GPs, GP registrars, and junior doctors
• Provides advice on why, when, and how to refer to geneticists for specific conditions
• Includes helpful hints and diagrams on constructing family trees
• Features advice on surveillance of patients and/or their family, affected by a genetic disease
• Includes an extensive glossary and resources section

The Oxford Handbook of Genetics provides an essential overview of this complex subject, distilled into an accessible format for primary care practitioners and junior doctors. It can be used as an aide memoire to gain advice on dealing with individual patients during the working day, or as a reference text to be read over time. Combining the expertise of leading geneticists with the knowledge of experienced general practitioners, the handbook covers the genetics core curriculum as defined by the Royal College of General Practitioners. It includes sections on elementary genetics, single gene disorders, and chromosomal problems, as well as information about the multifactorial diseases, such as ischaemic heart disease, with which practitioners are more familiar. There are also comprehensive sections on antenatal issues, and cancers. A comprehensive glossary with explanations of genetic terminology, and an extensive list of resources, make this book suitable for all healthcare professionals regardless of their level of knowledge or experience. Designed to cross the primary-secondary care interface, this unique handbook covers the gap between general health training and genetic specialist training, including specific advice about when, and how, to make a referral to a genetics service. Given the rapid growth in the genetic knowledge base, this book is designed to be both accessible and informative as a substantive educational resource for practitioners. Readership: Primary care practitioners, junior doctors in training for careers in primary care, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics, allied services (social services, education), and health visitors.

CONTENTS

1. The impact of genetic disease on families
2. Patterns of inheritance
3. Genetic investigations
4. Genetic services and the primary care interface
5. Common genetic conditions
6. Common consultations in primary care
7. Cancer
8. Chromosomes
9. Fertility, pregnancy, and the newborn
10. The future
11. Resources

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Guy Bradley-Smith is a GP in a large practice in Exeter, looking after 29,000 patients, where he's worked since 1985. He is a previous member of Devon LMC, Vice-Chair Exeter Primary Care Group, and was re-introduced to genetics when asked to do an audit of Genetic referrals to the Peninsula Genetics service by SHA specialist commissioners in 2005. He has been the lead for Exeter Primary Care Trust for learning disability since 2001, with involvement in the 2008 SHA Darzi review in the South West. He is currently leading the community module structured academic programme for final year medical students at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and Honorary University Fellow. Sally Hope has been a GP Principal since 1986 at the Woodstock Surgery, North Oxfordshire. She was a founding member of the Primary Care Group in Gynaecology in 1990. She was on the national council of the British Menopause Society 1997-2000. She is the RCGP representative on the NICE osteoporosis guidelines group, and on the Human Medicines Commission Women's Health advisory board. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in Women's Health, Dept Primary Health Care, University of Oxford.