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Careers
Careers in Genetics (Medical Genetics / Genetic Counseling / Other)
Clinics
Conditions
Blood types [ABO, Rh, Duffy, Kell, Kidd, Lutheran, MNS,other]
- Blood types, donating blood, American Association of Blood Banks
- ABO compatibility Chart, Children's Liver Association
- Transfusion Safety: ABO-Rh Compatibility, Puget Sound Blood Center
- ABO Blood Groups (.pdf), American Red Cross, What is a blood group? How is blood group determined? What is Rh factor? How common are blood types?
- ABO Blood Group, OMIM *110300
- ABO Blood Group System, Locus ABO (Common alleles - Rare alleles), Blood Group Antigen Gene Mutation Database
- Rh Blood Group System, Blood Group Antigen Gene Mutation Database
- Blood Group Antigen Gene Mutation Database, Choose Blood Group System (Gene Locus) - ABO (ABO), Colton (AQP1), Duffy (FY), Kell (KEL, XK), Kidd (SLC14A1), Landsteiner-Wiener (LW), Lutheran (LU), MNS (GYPA), Rh (RHCE, RHD, RHAG), Yt (ACHE), other OMIM [Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man]
- Questions about Basic Blood Bank Reagent and what they do, University of Arizona
- Blood Group (Rh) Incompatibility, University of Maryland Medicine
- ABO Blood Type Calculator, GeneTree
- Consanguinity, see article Freire-Maia N (1984) Effects of Consanguineous Marriages on Morbidity and Precocious Mortality: Genetic Counseling. American Journal of Medical Genetics 18:401-6
- First cousins face lower risk of having children with genetic conditions than is widely perceived, University of Washington
- NPR story on first cousin marriages, R Bennett, Journal of Genetic Counseling, April 2002
- States that allow cousin marriages, cousincouples.com, and other information
- Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin Marriage, Martin Ottenheimer, 1996, also at Amazon.com
- C.U.D.D.L.E. International (cousins united to defeat discriminating laws through education), U.S. State Laws, map, other
- When Parents are Relatives: Consanguinity, Genetic Fact Sheet, (also, .pdf) NSW Genetic Education Program, Australia
- Kohanim, or Cohanim, variation of the Y chromosome, in some Jewish men, see also
Color blindness
- Breaking the Code of Color: Color Blindness, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Ishihara Test for Color Blindness, About Color Blindness (Color Vision Deficiency), Toledo Bend Lake (Reservoir)
- What is Color Blindness? KidsHealth
- Medical Genetics X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Medical University of South Carolina
- Color Blindness, EyeMDLink
Alcoholism
Genetics and Alcoholism, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism No. 18 PH 357 July 1992
Ethics
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues regarding genetics
Inheritance Patterns
- Patterns of Inheritance, Contact a Family, United Kingdom
- Mendelian Patterns of Inheritance, Virtual Hospital
Genetics of Normal Traits, see Nora and Fraser's book, Medical Genetics: Principles and Practice, chapter 9 "Normal Traits", third edition, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, 1989. ISBN 0-81-21-1165-6. Normal physical features, eye color, hair color, hair form, baldness, skin color, ear lobes, tongue rolling, handedness, thumb clasping, dental anomalies, webbing of toes, PTC tasting, color blindness, other
Short stature, tall stature
- Dwarfism & gigantism, Greenberg Center for Skeletal Dysplasias
- Dwarfism, Little People of America (LPA)
- Growth Delay Conditions, including Constitutional Delay, Magic Foundation
- Constitutional Growth Delay, eMedicine Article
Eye color, hair color
- Eye color and hair color, genetics
- Genetics of Human Eye Color, Science Education Partnerships, Oregon
- Hair color index, numerous references from www.keratin.com
- Phenotypes and Genotypes for human eye colors, 1999 Athro, Limited
- Stars in Your Child's Eyes, Science Games and Competitions, BBC New
Skin Color
- Multifactorial Traits, Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications, 5th Ed., R Lewis, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
- Human skin color, controlled by anywhere from 4 to 6 different genes, with multiple alleles
Simian Crease (transverse palmar crease)
- Simian crease, Dr. Spock
- Simian crease
Birthmarks (hemangioma, strawberry mark, stork kiss / bite / mark, angel kiss, port wine stain, nevus flammeus)
- Stork bite, JWHull
- Vascular birth marks, American Academy of Dermatology
- Birthmarks, KidsHealth
- Birthmarks, NIH
- Birthmark Types, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital
Handedness
- Genetics of Handedness, Lorin's Left-handedness site (many other links)
Human Genome Project
Education
Genetics Education, curricula, books, videos, lesson plans, resources
Frequency of genetic conditions
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Multicultural materials, information in languages other than English
Color Deficient Vision, Web Designer's Color Card and Chart
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Parentage Testing (paternity, other identity testing)
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Revised January 23, 2009
