Gen en de Geneeskunde: De Betekenis van de Moderne DNA-Technieken voor Onderzoek en Behandeling van Erfelijke (Genes and Medical Science: The Meaning of the Modern DNA Techniques for Research and Treatment of Genetic Diseases)

摘要

The report is a background study within the framework of the identifying and advising activities of the Health Council in the area of genetic diagnostics and gene therapy. Table of contents: Introduction; Scope and nature of genetic diseases and birth defects; Tracking down genetic diseases and birth defects; The fertile combination of modern and classical methods of genetic research; Prenatal and postnatal genetic research, present and future; Mapping of all man's genes; Other genetic research options; Treatment of genetic diseases: perspective and gene therapy; and Evaluation.