Melita Irving

The Human DNA Manual

Understanding Your Genetic Code: Evolution * Ancestry * Health * Genomics * Epigenetics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ideas in genetic science are put in exciting and accessible terms across the worlds of ancestry, health, identity, epigenics and criminal investigation, with attention to what the advances of the future hold.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haynes Manuals
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 272mm x 211mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781785215940
• ISBN-10: 1785215949
• Artikelnr.: 55309923

Autorenporträt

Dr Melita Irving is an expert London-based consultant and honorary reader in clinical genetics. After initially training in pediatrics, she now specialises in genetic conditions, and has extensive experience in diagnosing and managing a wide range of genetic conditions. Her specialist interests include chromosomal disorders, rare genetic symptoms, and conditions with an underlying genetic cause. Dr Irving has established multidisciplinary pediatric clinics in skeletal dysplasia offering a close monitoring and management service, and is an active researcher, working to develop and improve the diagnosis of severe skeletal conditions. She currently acts as the chief investigator for clinical trials in children with skeletal dysplasia, developing the diagnosis of genetic conditions and improving the accurate diagnosis of severe skeletal conditions. Her work is featured in many peer-reviewed publications and she has published extensively on various aspects of clinical genetics.