MEDICAL GENETICS
cod. 03553

Academic year 2012/13
6° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Genetica medica (MED/03)
Field
Discipline pediatriche
Type of training activity
Characterising
8 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: GENERAL AND SPECIALIST PEDIATRICS (ATT)

Learning objectives

The student is ecouraged toward a genetic approach in clinical practice of inherited diseases either employing pedigree analysis in risk definition or using the new diagnostic technologies in a proper way.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Informations and risk calculation from pedigree analysis.
Role and limits of genetic tests in mendelian and multifactorial diseases
Genomics after genome project in clinical practice.
New technologies in genetic diagnosis: perspectives and limits.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Thompson & Thompson Genetics in Medicine Nussbaum RL McInnes RR Willard HF eds, Saudrs Elsevier pub., Philadelphia 2007

Teaching methods

Oral lectures

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

Other information

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