Essential Medical Genetics gives a balanced introduction to the basic principles of genetics and how it is applied to the understanding and treatment of diseases with a genetic component. Divided into?three sections, basic principles,?common situations in clinical genetics, and electronic databases, it covers all the information that medical students are taught throughout all years of their course.??The?third section on electronic databases assists students on how to get the most out of these as they?become more and more?fundamental to teaching.? Essential Medical Genetics is now available as a FREE enhanced Wiley Desktop Edition - an interactive digital version of the book featuring downloadable text and images, highlighting and note-taking facilities, book marking, cross-referencing, in-text searching, and linking to references and glossary terms.