Student Corner - Resources

Listed  is a table of textbooks organized by topic. This list is not all inclusive, but is intended to serve as a library "wish list" for new genetic counselors. Please e-mail Aubrey R. Turner (aturner@wfubmc.edu) or Laura M. Swaminathan (laules@mail.com) if you would like to submit suggestions for this page, including any texts that you find valuable which are not listed here.

Keep in mind that it it may be more appropriate for an employer to purchase many of the larger reference texts, as it is unreasonable for an individual genetic counselor to purchase every text in such a large collection. As a student you should make note of standard references available in departmental libraries, versus texts owned by individual genetic counselors. Although we have done our very best to group the texts below according to category, some texts defy traditional categories. While we hope to offer online reviews of these resources in the future, at this time you should gather opinions to help decide which texts will best meet your needs.

Helpful Textbooks

1st AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE	CATEGORY
Ganong	Review of Medical Physiology	2001	Anat/Phys
Gray	Gray's Anotomy	1995
Guyton	Textbook of Medical Physiology	1986
Eeles	Genetic Predisposition to Cancer	1996	Cancer
JGC	Special Issue: CANCER	1997
Mulvihill	Catalog of Human Cancer Genes	2000
Offit	Clinical Cancer Genetics	1998
Schneider	Counseling about Cancer	1994
Vogelstein	Genetic Basis of Human Cancer	1998
Gardner	Chromosome abnormalities and Genetic Counseling	1996	Chromosomes
Karger	International System for Human Genetics Nomenclature	1995
Schinzel	Catalog of Unbalanced Chromosome Aberrations in Man	1984
Warburton	Chromosome Anomalies and Prenatal Development	1991
Baker	A Guide to Genetic Counseling	1998	Counseling
Harper	Practical Genetic Counseling	1998
Marks	Genetic Counseling Principles in Action	1989
Weil	Psychosocial Genetic Counseling	2000
Dorland	Dorlands Medical Dictionary	2000	Dictionary
Stedman	Stedman's Medical Dictionary	2000
Aase	Diagnostic Dysmorphology	1990	Dysmorphology
Baraiatser	Color Atlas of Congenital Malformation Syndromes	1996
Buyse	Birth Defects Encyclopedia	1990
Goodman	Atlas of the Face in Genetic Disorders	1977
Goodman	Malformed Infant and Child	1983
Gorlin	Syndromes of the Head and Neck	1990
Jones	Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation	1997
Warkany	Congenital Malformations	1971
Winter	Multiple Congenital Anomalies: A diagnostic compendium	1991
Larsen	Essentials of Human Embryology	1998	Embryology
Larsen	Human Embryology	1997
Moore	Before We are Born	1998
Moore	The Developing Human	1998
Coutran	Robbin's Pathologic basis of disease	1999	General
Emery	Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics	1997
Gelehrter	Principles of Medical Genetics	1998
Jorde	Medical Genetics	1999
Magalini	Dictionary of Medical Syndromes	1997
Robinson	Clinical Genetics Handbook	1993
Rothwell	Understanding Genetics, A Molecular Approach	1993
Strachan	Human Molecular Genetics	1999
Wilson	Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine	2000
Wynbrandt	Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects	2000
Miller	Blood Diseases of Infancy and Childhood	1995	Hematology
Nathan	Hematology of Infancy and Childhood	1998
Tuddenham	Molecular Genetics of Haemostasis and its Inherited Disorders	1994
Burns	Infertility Counseling	1999	Infertility
Speroff	Clinical Gynecological Endocrinology	1994
Devlin	Textbook of Biochemistry	1997	Metabolic
Holton	The Inherited Metabolic Diseases	1994
Scriver	Metabolic and Molecular Basis of Inherited Disease	1999
Stryer	Biochemistry	1995
Avery	Pediatric Medicine	1993	Pediatrics
Bianchi	Fetology: Diagnosis and Management of the Fetal Patient	2000	Prenatal
Callen	Ultrasonography in OBGyn	2000
Eddleman	Pregnancy for Dummies	1999
Evans	Reproductive Risks and Prenatal Diagnosis	1992
James	HighRisk Pregnancy:Management Options	1999
McDonald	William's Obstetrics	1996
McGahan	Diagnostic Obstetrical Ultrasound	1994
Milunsky	Genetic Disorders and the Fetus	1998
Romero	Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Anomalies	1988
Sanders	Structural Fetal Abnormalities	1996
Simpson	Essentials of Prenatal Diagnosis	1993
DSM-IV	Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders	2000	Reference
Genetic Alliance	Directory of National Genetic Voluntary Organizations	1995
Gilbert	Genetic Testing, Directory of Genetic Testing Laboratories	1998
Hall	Handbook of Normal Physical Measurements	1989
Holtzman	Promoting Safe and Effective Genetic Counseling in the US	1998
Merck	Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy	1999
Thoene	Physicians Guide to Rare diseases	1995
Andrews	Assessing Genetic Risks	1994	Risk Assessment
Bridge	Calculation of Genetic Risks	1997
Young	Introduction to Risk Calculations in Genetic counseling	1999
JGC	FRAGILE X Guidelines	2000	Specialty
Langfelder	Cystic Fibrosis	1999
McKusick	Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue	1993
Spitz	Gendermatoses	1997
Wells	Genetic Instabilities and Hereditary Neurological Diseases	1998
Briggs	Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation	1998	Teratogens
Coustan	Handbook for Prescribing Medications in Pregnancy	1998
Friedman	Teratogenic effects of Drugs/TERIS/Resource for Clinicians	1994
PDR	Physician's Desk Reference	2000
Shepard	Catalog of Teratogenic Agents	1998