edited by Dan M. Roden
Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics is a comprehensive and concise presentation of genetic factors in cardiovascular disease and their response to therapy consolidates knowledge of this high-interest and emerging topic.
Covering broad areas of contemporary genomic medicine and specific cardiovascular diseases, Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics is a must for anyone seeking to better understand this rapidly developing field.
Contents
Section A: Principles
- Principles of genetics and genomics
- Candidate gene and genome-wide association approaches
- A primer in statistical methods in genetics
- Ethical, legal, and social issues
- The role of ethnicity in managing cardiovascular patients
- Moving to the bedside: when? how?
Section B: Specific cardiovascular disease
- Genomics and atrial arrhythmias
- Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other forms of hypertrophy
- Genetics and genomics of dilated cardiomyopathy
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- Genetics of atherosclerosis
- Hypertension
- Stroke genomics
- Thrombosis
- Case study: warfarin pharmacogenetics from single to multiple genes
- Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics
Index
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