Books

Medical Genetics Summaries

PubMed Clinical Q&A

Laura Dean. National Library of Medicine 2008.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=ebm

Blood Groups and Red Cell Antigens

Laura Dean. National Library of Medicine 2005.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=rbcantigen

The Genetic Landscape of Diabetes

Laura Dean and Johanna McEntyre. National Library of Medicine 2004.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=diabetes.TOC
Recommended reading by the ADA (American Diabetes Association), Harvard University, and Stanford University's School of Medicine.

Articles

Coffee Break

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=coffeebrk.TOC

• How low can you go? The promise of a new class of cholesterol lowering drugs (2014)

• Turning the white fat brown: a new approach to obesity? (2014)

• A gut feeling: bugs are critical for good health (2013)

• DNAs of our lives: The role of pharmacogenomics in modern medicine (2013)

• Roses, noses, and underarms: how one variation in our DNA influences underarm perspiration (and ear wax) (2013)

• Neanderthal man lives on in some of us: the genome of our extinct sister species has been sequenced (2010)

• From Africa to the Arctic: how the woolly mammoth adapted to the cold (2010)

• The songbird and the chicken - how a song can change a genome (2010)

• Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear – the genetics of ear wax (2006)
  

• Who let the dogs out? – A genetic classification of dog breeds (2004)

• Talking about the genetics of talking – The discovery of the first “speech and language” gene (2003)

• Variations on a gene – Investigating the genetic basis of iron overload (2003)

• Mutations and blood clots  – How point mutations in clotting factor genes conspire to increase the risk of thrombosis (2000)

Genes and Disease

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=gnd.TOC

• Achondroplasia
  
• Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
  
• Alport syndrome
  
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  
• Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
  
• Hereditary hemochromatosis
  
• Immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM
  
• Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
  
• Maple syrup urine disease
  
• Narcolepsy
  
• Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
  
• Porphyria
  
• Phenylketonuria
  
• Thalassemia

Papers

• Introduction Of Handheld Computers Into The Haematology Department Of A District General Hospital. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, Laura Dean. The Internet Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatology. 2003. Volume 3 Number 1.

• Methamphetamine toxicity in mice is potentiated by exposure to loud music. Morton AJ, Hickey MA, Dean, LC. Neuroreport. 2001 Oct 29;12(15):3277-81.