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New advances in genetics have dramatically expanded our ability to avoid, prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide range of disorders. Now, more than ever, families need to know about these new discoveries, especially as there are some 7,000 rare genetic diseases that afflict about 1 in 12 of us. In Your Genes, Your Health, Aubrey Milunsky provides an invaluable and authoritative guide to what you should know about your genes. Illustrated with poignant family histories that underscore the lifesaving importance of knowing one's family medical history and ethnic origin, the book highlights the importance of recognizing seemingly unrelated disorders in a family as due to the same gene mutation and it outlines the key genetic tests needed for diagnosis, detection of carriers, and prenatal diagnosis. Many genetic disorders are discussed including cancer, heart disease, autism, mental illness, birth defects, neurologic disorders, diabetes, obesity and much more. The message of this book is clear--know your family history, be cognizant of your ethnic origins, seek appropriate consultations, and opt for meaningful genetic tests. Recognition of your risk(s) enables prompt preemptive action. By knowing your genes, you may save your life and the lives of those you love.

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Contents

1. Why and What You Should Know

2. Too Many or Too Few Chromosomes

3. X's and Y's: The Sex Chromosomes

4. Chromosome Rearrangements

5. Blueprints: You and Your Genes

6. How Genes are Transmitted

7. Prenatal Diagnosis

8. When Good Cells Go Wrong

9. Matters of the Heart

10. Consequences of a Failure to Diagnose

11. Genes Gone Missing

12. Earlier and More Severe Genetic Disorders

13. The Determination to Have a Healthy Child

14. Irrevocability and Acceptance

15. Ancestral Genetic Burdens

16. Puzzling Fevers

17. Bleeding and Clotting

18. Blood Vessels that Burst

19. Connectivity: Abnormal Brain Connections

20. Skin: A Mirror to the Brain

21. Genes with Signatures

22. Maternal Inheritance and Inevitability

23. Harmful Maternal Effects on the Fetus

24. Patterns of Anomalies

25. Treatment Options

26. Sugar and Metals

27. Obesity: A Weighty Burden

28. Hypertension

Frequently Asked Questions

Appendix 1: Cancer Family Syndromes for which Preimplantation Genetic Diagnoses have been Performed

Appendix 2: Genetic Disorders with Germline Mosacism

Appendix 3: Disorders with Dynamic Mutations

Appendix 4: Genetic Disorders that show Anticipation

Appendix 5: Guidelines for Presymptomatic or Predictive Testing

Appendix 6: Genetic Disorders in which Dilatation of the Aorta may Occur

Appendix 7: Genetic Disorders with Imprinting

Appendix 8: Genetic Resources and Support Organizations

Index