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Contents Acknowledgments 000 Introduction: Who Should Read This Book? 000 Chapter 1. Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Know Your Family's Health History 000 Family Health History 000 It Runs in the Family 000 Genetics 000 Chapter 2. Dominant and Recessive Diseases: Our Genetic Inheritance 000 Genes and Diseases 000 Recessive Diseases 000 The Founder Effect 000 Dominant Diseases 000 Mad King George 000 The Importance of Location 000 Marfan Disease 000 Huntington Disease 000 The Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick 000 Chapter 3. When Genes Go Bad 000 Chromosome Diseases 000 Single-Gene Diseases 000 Multifactorial Diseases 000 Other Genetic Diseases 000 Chapter 4. Compiling Your Family's Health History 000 The Interview 000 A Review of Systems 000 Be Specific 000 Chapter 5. Do You Speak Medicalese? 000 Death Certificates 000 Coroners and Medical Examiners 000 Obituaries 000 Cemetery and Funeral Records 000 Hospital and Physician's Records 000 The Federal Census 000 Other Records 000 Research Aids 000 Analyzing the Information 000 Chapter 6. Draw Your Pedigree 000 Format 000 Constructing the Pedigree 000 Design 000 Chapter 7. What Have I Found? 000 The Warning Signs 000 Patterns of Inheritance 000 Cousin Marriages 000 Familial Diseases 000 Chapter 8. Common and Important Genetic Diseases 000 The Heart and Blood Vessels 000 The Lungs 000 The Stomach and Intestines 000 Nervous Conditions 000 Muscle, Bone, and Skin Conditions 000 The Blood 000 The Kidneys, Bladder, and Reproductive System 000 The Sensory System 000 Hormone and Metabolic Conditions 000 Cancer 000 Chapter 9. Tracking Your Genes: Molecular Genealogy 000 What Is a Gene? 000 The Structure of DNA 000 How Does DNA Function? 000 Mutations 000 Using DNA for Genealogy 000 Chapter 10. Y Chromosome Testing: Your Father's Father's Father . . . 000 Y Chromosome Inheritance 000 How to Analyze the Y Chromosome 000 Genealogy 000 Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings 000 Starting Your Own Y Chromosome Project 000 Deep Ancestry 000 Jewish Y Chromosomes 000 Genghis Khan 000 The Irish Surname 000 Identification 000 Disease 000 Chapter 11. Mitochondrial DNA: Tracking Mom's Line 000 mtDNA Inheritance 000 How to Analyze mtDNA 000 Genealogy 000 Starting Your Own mtDNA Project 000 Deep Ancestry 000 mtDNA and Anthropology 000 Identification 000 Disease 000 Chapter 12. More Information on the Internet 000 The National Library of Medicine 000 MEDLINE 000 MEDLINEplus 000 Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man 000 Genetics Home Reference 000 The National Human Genome Research Institute 000 Other Government Web Pages 000 Universities 000 Organizations 000 Pharmaceutical Companies 000 Mailing Lists 000 Y Chromosome Family Projects 000 DNA Databases 000 Chapter 13. Ethics, Privacy, and the Future of Genetics and Genealogy 000 Investigating Family Health 000 Genetic Tests 000 Testing and Family Information 000 Quality 000 Privacy Concerns 000 Eugenics 000 Government's Role 000 The New Genealogy 000 21st Century Medicine 000 Epilogue 000 Appendix A: Forms for Compiling Your Family's Health History 000 Appendix B: National Genealogical Society Guidelines and Standards 000 Guidelines for Using Records, Repositories, and Libraries 000 Standards for Use of Technology in Genealogical Research 000 Guidelines for Publishing Web Pages on the Internet 000 Guidelines for Genealogical Self-Improvement and Growth 000 Glossary 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Medical genetics, Genealogy, Medical history taking, Health status indicators