Systems Medical Genetics

Catalog description

Focuses on the connections between human development and inherited disease. Includes core principles of development of the body plan and signaling pathways involved in development and differentiation. Discusses fundamental principles regarding congenital malformations, dysmorphology and syndromes. Discussion of a number of genetic disorders from a systems approach. Discussions include diagnosis, etiology, genetics, prognosis and management. Either semester and summer. Online.