The History of a Genetic Disease by Alan E H Emery
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The History of a Genetic Disease

The History of a Genetic Disease


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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a disease that only affects males, with an incidence of around 1 in 3500 new-born baby boys. Its relentless progress is charterized by loss of the ability to walk by around the age of 10 or 11, leading to a wheelchair life, and dealth from cardiac and respiratory problems usually around the late teens or early twenties.

Edward Meryon was the first person to give a full and detailed clinical description of what later research knows as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His research identified many facets of the condition which we now take for granted, for example that it only affects males, that it is an inherited condition carried in female genes, that it is a disease of the muscle system, and its causes. Until recently, Meryon has not been given credit for his contribution to the subject. In this book, the history of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is traced in detail, and is interwoven with a commentary of Meryon's research which has led to our current understanding of the disease, will full refences and informative, historically relevant illustrations.

This book concludes with a summary of the current position regarding diagnosis, prevention through counselling and prenatal diagnosis, and new encouraging approaches to treatment through molecular genetics.

About the Author:
Over a long career Alan E. H. Emery has published some 400 articles and written or edited 24 books, mainly, but not exclusively, concerned with genetics and neuromuscular disorders. In 1989 he helped found the European Neuromuscular Centre and was its first Research Director and later in 2001 established the Section of Medical Genetics of the Royal Society of Medicine, and became its Founding President. He has received many national and international awards and honorary degrees. In retirement he now has more time for his hobbies of oil painting and writing poetry.

Marcia L. H. Emery was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated in Clinical Psychology at Wooster College with an honours year at St. Andrews University, and later an MSc in Information Sciences from Case Western Reserve University. In more recent years her interests have centred on medical history and art history and she has published several articles on these subjects. Like her husband she now has a little more time for her hobbies of needlework and identifying and studying butterflies.

The authors live in Devon but retain strong associations with Green Templeton College, Oxford.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199591473
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: Oxford Medical Histories
  • Sub Title: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or Meryon's Disease
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199591474
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 2
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 644 gr


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