Paediatric Research

Foreword (Paul Polani). Preface.

1. The epidemiology of congenital defects: a pragmatic approach.

2. Is the outcome of very low birthweight improving?

3. Inheritable variation in the response to drugs and other environmental chemicals.

4. The repair of genetic damage and its relevance to human health.

5. Meiosis and the aetiology of chromosomal aberrations in man.

6. Population cytogenetics: a perspective.

7. Chromosome aberrations as a cause of prenatal death.

8. Recent advances in clinical cytogenetics.

9. Changes in genetic counselling during the last 25 years.

10. The immunosuppressive role of alphafetoprotein and the transfer of lymphocytes across the placenta: two controversial issues in the materno-fetal relationship.

11. Neural-tube defects: cause and prevention.

12. Prevention and treatment of biochemical genetic disorders.