Genetic Insights in Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Using clinical examples to illustrate their understanding, a team of international experts provide insights into the genetic basis of a range of diseases of an endocrinological nature and new ways of studying such conditions at a molecular level.

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Endocrine problems in children can be very distressing, not only for the patients concerned, but also for those close to them. Thanks to advances in the understanding of the genetic basis of disease and improved techniques for studying conditions at the molecular level, the mechanisms behind these problems are now far more widely understood. In this book, an international team of experts illustrate, largely with clinical examples, how novel endocrinological insights have been obtained from the molecular genetic study of childhood endrocrine disease. Reviews in this volume cover a wide range of subjects including diabetics and hypoglycaemia, growth and obesity, and genetic disorders leading to thyroid dysfunction, skeletal dysmorphism and endocrine cancers.