Genetic Clinics
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | July to September 2008
GeNeDit
July to September 2008 | Vol 1 | Issue 1 | Pages 2
Era of Genetic Medicine
It gives me great pleasure to bring out the first issue of the newsletter of Genetics Chapter of Indian Academy of Pediatrics for the medical geneticists and the clinicians interested in genetics. The rapid and exciting advances in the field of research in genetics during last century have found a lot of...
Dr Shubha R Phadke
GeNeViSTA
July to September 2008 | Vol 1 | Issue 1 | Pages 5-7
Cytogenetic testing in clinical practice
As early as in 1882, walther flemming, an austrian cytologist and professor of anatomy had published the first illustrations of human chromosomes. It then took several decades before Tijo and Levan in 1956 could prove that the total number of chromosomes in a human cell is 46...
Girisha KM
Clinical Vignettes
July to September 2008 | Vol 1 | Issue 1 | Pages 8
GLI3 gene and syndromes of polyddactyly
The similarity between different malformation syndromes has been observed by clinical geneticists since long. With identification of causative genes for many malformation syndromes, the answers for the clinical similarities have been found for some syndromes. Here, we present ....
Kausik Mandal, Girisha KM, Shubha R Phadke
GeNeXprESS
July to September 2008 | Vol 1 | Issue 1 | Pages 9
The archetype gene fusion BCR-ABL1 gives a great insight into tumour biology, and aids diagnosis and therapy of chronic myeloid leukemia. In a recent article in nature reviews cancer (july 2008 issue), chandan kumar sinha et al...
Dr Parag Tamhankar and Dr Prajnya Ranganath
