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Books

Understanding Genetics: A Guide for Patients and Health Professionals

A comprehensive manual that provides a wealth of genetic education materials for patients and health professionals to increase awareness of specialty care in genetics (2006)
Genes and Disease
Online textbook from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (last accessed 6/2006)

Integrating Genomics into Public Health Policy and Practice
Book chapter by Laura M. Beskow, Marta Gwinn, and Mark A. Rothstein. In Goodman RA, et al (eds), Law in Public Health Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp.245-61.
Epidemiology
Book chapter by M. Gwinn, M. J. Khoury - Genetics in Practice (2001)
Genetics and Public Health in the 21st Century: Using Genetic Information to Improve Health and Prevent Disease
Edited by M.J. Khoury, W Burke, and E Thomson, Oxford University Press (2000).

An Introduction to Genetic Analysis
An online book by Anthony J.F. Griffiths, Jeffrey H. Miller, David T. Suzuki, Richard C. Lewontin and William M. Gelbart, W. H. Freeman and Company (2000).

Genetic Epidemiology
Book chapter excerpted from Modern Epidemiology, Second Edition (1997)

Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome (Nature EHG)
Reference work devoted to the scientific basis and ethical, philosophical, and commercial ramifications of genome research.

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