Congenital Disorders

One of a series of distance learning books for healthcare professionals in under-resourced areas. Birth Defects is written for healthcare workers who look after individuals with birth defects, their families, and women who are at increased risk of giving birth to an infant with a birth defect. Areas covered include modes of inheritance, medical genetic counselling, birth defects due to chromosomal abnormalities, single gene defects, teratogens and multifactorial inheritance.