GENETIC ASPECTS OF SOME DISEASES OF THE BLOOD
Authors: M. S. S.
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1947)

Editorial1 May 1947GENETIC ASPECTS OF SOME DISEASES OF THE BLOODM. S. S.M. S. S.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-26-5-796 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptPrecision in diagnosis, prognosis and therapy depends to a large degree on exactness in etiology. One cause, and by no means an unimportant one, of clinical abnormality is the gene. Major emphasis in the control of disease has been placed upon environmental factors in their broadest sense. Thus tremendous strides have been made in recent years in the control of diseases of infectious or nutritional etiology. As the latter continue to be conquered one by one the influence of genetic anomalies becomes of greater relative importance.The use of the term "congenital" in delineating disease of genetic origin is, as...1 CREW FA: The place of genetics in clinical medicine, British Med. Bull., 1946, iv, 166-170. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2 GREGG NM: Congenital cataract following German measles in mother, Trans. Ophth. Soc. Aust., 1941, iii, 35. Google Scholar3 COOLEYLEE TBP: Series of cases of splenomegaly in children with anemia and peculiar bone change, Trans. Am. Pediat. Soc., 1925, xxxvii, 29. Google Scholar4 COOLEY TB: Hereditary factors in the blood dyscrasias, Am. Jr. Dis. Child., 1941, lxii, 1-8. Google Scholar5 ANGELINI V: Primi resultati di ricerche ematologicle nei familiari di Ammalati di anemia di Cooley, Minerva med., 1937, ii, 331. Google Scholar6 CAMINOPETROS J: Researches on infantile erythroblastic anemia in people of eastern Mediterranean, Ann. de Med., 1938, xliii, 27-61, 104-125. Google Scholar7 WINTROBEMATTHEWSPOLLACKDOHYNS MMERBM: A familial hemopoietic disorder in Italian adolescents and adults, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1940, cxiv, 1530. Google Scholar8 DAMESHEK W: Target cell anemia. Anerythroblastic type of Cooley's erythroblastic anemia, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1940, cc, 445. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9 STRAUSSDALANDFOX MBGAHJ: Familial microcytic anemia, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1941, cci, 30. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10 VALENTINENEEL WNJV: Hematologic and genetic study of the transmission of Thalassemia (Cooley's anemia, Mediterranean anemia), Arch. Int. Med., 1944, lxxiv, 185. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11 NEELVALENTINE JVWN: The frequency of thalassemia, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1945, ccix, 568. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12 PENFIELDERICKSON WTC: Epilepsy and cerebral localization, 1941, C. C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. Google Scholar13 BERNSTEIN : Ztschr. f. indukt. Abstammungs v. Vererbungs., 1925, xxxvii, 237. Google Scholar14 WATERHOUSEHOGBEN JAL: Incompatibility of mother and fetus with respect to the iso-agglutinogen A and its antibody, British Jr. Soc. Med., 1947, i, 1. Google Scholar15 LEVINE P: The present status of the Rh factor, Am. Jr. Clin. Path., 1946, xvi, 597. CrossrefGoogle Scholar16 WEINER AS: The Rh series of allelic genes, Science, 1944, c, 595. CrossrefGoogle Scholar17 LEVINE P: Yearbook of pathology and bacteriology, 1941, pp. 508-513. Google Scholar18 FISHERRACE RARR: Rh gene frequencies in Britain, Nature, 1946, clvii, 48. CrossrefGoogle Scholar19 SACKSKUHNSJAHN MSWEE: Studies in Rh iso-immunization, Am. Jr. Obst. and Gynec. (in press). Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 May 1947Volume 26, Issue 5Page: 796-800KeywordsBloodEtiologyGenetic diseasesGeneticsInfectious disease controlNutrition ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 May 1947 PDF downloadLoading ...