MSc in Medical Genetics

The University of Glasgow
Department of Medical Genetics 

Reading list.

Recommended Journals divided into essential and useful by current students.

Essential

• Journal of Medical Genetics
• Human Genetics
• American Journal of Human Genetics
• American Journal of Medical Genetics
• British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Prenatal Diagnosis

Useful

• Nature Genetics
• Human Molecular Genetics
• Gene Therapy
• Trends in Genetics
• Human Mutation

Matriculated students have access to a wide range of full text E- journals through the University of Glasgow Library Merlin page.

Recommended Texts, divided into essential and useful by current students.

Essential

• Essential medical genetics ; Michael Connor, Malcolm A. Ferguson-SmithEdition ; 5th ed ; Oxford, Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Science, 1997 Recommended purchase
• Emery & Rimoin's Principles and practice of medical genetics ; edited by David L. Rimoin, J. Michael Connor and Reed E. Pyeritz ; senior advisory editor, A. E. H. Emery ; 3rd ed ; New york Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 1996
• Prenatal diagnosis in obstetric practice ; edited by M. J. Whittle, J. M. Connor ; Oxford : Blackwell Scientific, 1989
• Human molecular genetics ; Tom Strachan and Andrew P. Read ; Oxford : BIOS Scientific Publishers, 1999 Recommended purchase
• Human chromosome abnormalities -- Cytodiagnosis Human cytogenetics; D. E. Rooney and  B. H. Czepulkowski; 
• Introduction to Risk Calculation in Genetic Counselling; Ian Young; Oxford University Press, 1999 Recommended purchase
• Practical Genetic Counselling ; Peter S. Harper ; 5th ed ; Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998 Recommended purchase for medical graduates

Useful

• Molecular genetics of cancer ; edited by John K. Cowell ; Oxford : Bios, 1995
• Genes VII ; Benjamin Lewin ; 7th ed ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999
• Human chromosomes : principles and techniques ; [edited by] Ram S. Verma, Arvind Babu ; 2nd ed ; New York London : McGraw-Hill, 1995

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