Genomic medicine : articles from the New England journal of medicine / edited by Alan E. Guttmacher, Francis S. Collins, and Jeffrey M. Drazen ; with a foreword by Elias Zerhouni.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ; Ton : New England journal of medicine, [2004], ©2004.

xvii, 179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Copy 1 Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Foreword / Elias Zerhouni -- Preface / Jeffrey M. Drazen -- List of contributors -- Glossary -- 1. Getting ready for gene-based medicine / Harold Varmus -- 2. Genomic medicine : a primer / Alan E. Guttmacher and Francis S. Collins -- 3. Genetic testing / Wylie Burke -- 4. Population screening in the age of genomic medicine / Muin J. Khoury, Linda L. McCabe, and Edward R.B. McCabe -- 5. Inheritance and drug response / Richard Weinshilboum -- 6. Pharmacogenomics : drug disposition, drug targets, and side effects / William E. Evans and Howard L. McLeod -- 7. Pharmacogenetics in the laboratory and the clinic / David B. Goldstein -- 8. Hereditary colorectal cancer / Henry T. Lynch and Albert De La Chapelle -- 9. Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease / Robert L. Nussbaum and Christopher E. Ellis -- Molecular diagnosis of the hematologic cancers / Louis M. Staudt -- 11. Breast and ovarian cancer / Richard Wooster and Barbara L. Weber -- 12. Cardiovascular disease / Elizabeth G. Nabel -- 13. Ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic medicine / Ellen Wright Clayton -- 14. Genomics as a probe for disease biology / Wylie Burke -- 15. Welcome to the genomic era / Alan E. Guttmacher and Francis S. Collins -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.