Genomic medicine: articles from the New England journal of medicine

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.