title: Putting medical genetics into practice.
abstract: This article describes a fragment of history on the growing impact of genetics on the practice of medicine over 50 years, as experienced by a medical geneticist who helped to provide services to patients at risk of genetic disorders. It is a personal account influenced by a fascination with chromosomes that has drawn him into many studies, including sex determination, gene discovery, fetal diagnosis, phylogenomics, and karyotype evolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 0ES, United Kingdom. maf12@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Malcolm A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ferguson-Smith
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D016643:Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / Q000235:genetics; D005826:Genetics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D007713:Klinefelter Syndrome / Q000235:genetics; D012606:Scotland; D012732:Sex Determination Analysis