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8 G. MEDICAL GENETICS. This is the branch of human In conclusion, it is said that specialisation makes human
genetics that deals with the relationship between heredity minds strangers to each other. But the above divisions of
and disease. There have been important developments in pathology into several specialisations are quite artificial since
the field of medical genetics e.g. in blood groups, inborn pathology embraces all disciplines of medicine and thus
errors of metabolism, chromosomal aberrations in overlapping of specialities is likely. While in the chapters that
congenital malformations and neoplasms etc. follow, efforts have been made to present the entire subject
H. MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY. The detection and covering diseases of the whole human body in an integrated
diagnosis of abnormalities at the level of DNA of the cell and coordinated manner, knowledge is ever-expanding on a
is included in molecular pathology. Recent advancements daily basis and the quest for learning more an ongoing
SECTION I
in molecular biologic techniques have resulted in process. Thus, all of us remain lifelong students of the art of
availability of these methods not only for research pathology of diseases!
purposes but also as a tool in diagnostic pathology.
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