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Genetics, Medicine and Public Health From the Geography of Diseases to the Phenotypic Spectrum of Malformation Syndromes1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Newton Freire-Maia
Newton Freire-Maia*
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná
*
Department of Genetics, Federal University of Paraná, P.O. Box 756, Guritiba, Paraná, Brazil

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The following problems are briefly mentioned and discussed in this paper: (i) the role of genetics in public health, both in developed and in developing countries; (2) genetic aspects of the differential geographical distribution of diseases; (3) clinical and etiological aspects of malformation syndromes; (4) nosological complexity and phenotypic spectrum of these syndromes, with special reference to ectodermal dysplasias; (5) some problems of modern human communities.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , July 1971 , pp. 237 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1971

Footnotes

1

This paper is based on a lecture delivered at the World Health Organization in 1970, when the author was a member of the staff.

References

1 This paper is based on a lecture delivered at the World Health Organization in 1970, when the author was a member of the staff.