Basic Human Genetics Principles

The book contains the substance of the lectures of the subject of ‘Basic Human Genetics Principles’ held in Medical colleges and Universities for my medical, biomedical , nurse pharmacological and dental students. The book updated starts with a short introduction to basic genetics and molecular biology and then topics from human genetics mainly from medical point of views. Some of the chapters deal with medical genetics, but the chapters also introduce to the basic knowledge of cell division, cytogenetics, epigenetics, developmental genetics, stem cell biology, oncogenetics, immunogenetics, population genetics, evolution genetics, nutrigenetics. As genomics belongs to sytems biology, a chapter introduces to basic terms of systems biology, and concentrating on diseases, some examples of the application and utilization of this scientific field are also be shown. At the end of each chapter there are questions, with which the readers can ascertain whether they understood and/or learned the chapter.