Medical genetics involves the
application of genetic principles in the practice of medicine. Medical genetics
encompasses diagnosis and treatment of genetic diseases, study of inheritance of
diseases in families, mapping of disease genes to their chromosome locations,
study of the molecular genetics and pathogenesis of inherited disorders,
provision of genetic counseling for families, and recently, investigations of
methods for gene therapy. Topics covered includes: Mendelian Genetics, Non-Mendelian
Genetics, Clinical Cytogenetics, Dysmorphology, Genetic Counseling, Prenatal
Diagnosis, Clinical DNA Diagnosis, Cancer Genetics, Problem Solving in Genetics,
Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Genetics.
This note covers
the following topics: Basic genetics,characteristics of the human DNA, Cell
Cycle And Cell Division,The chromosomes, History -structure number karyotyping,
Chromosomal abnormal, Mendelian inheritance, Sex-linked inheritance, The
genetics of sex, Mutation.
This note
covers the genetic structure of populations, The genetics of natural selection,
Genetic drift, Molecular evolution, Phylogeography and quantitative genetics.
Author(s): Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut
This note covers the following topics: Cells and DNA, How
Genes Work, Variants and Health, Inheriting Genetic Conditions, Genetics and
Human Traits, Genetic Testing, Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing.
Author(s): U.S. National Library of Medicine, National
Institutes of Health
This PDF covers the
following topics related to Genetics : Descriptive Statistics for DNA Sequences,
The Method of Maximum Likelihood, Genetic Drift, Gene Genealogies, Relating Gene
Genealogies to Genetics, The Site Frequency Spectrum, The Mismatch
Distribution.
This note covers the
following topics: quantitative versus qualitative genetics, Hardy-Weinberg law
for gene frequency stability in large populations, Relationship and inbreeding,
Estimation of breeding values, Inbreeding, crossing and bred structure,
Chromosomes and chromosome aberrations, Genetics on hair and coat colour in
mammals, Estimating- and biotechnology and disease resistance.
The objective of this note is have a
greater awareness and appreciation of classical and molecular genetics with
emphasis on genetic material and its formation, transmission, function and
organization. Topics covered includes: historical perspective of genetics,
inheritance patterns and the chromosomal basis of heredity, sex chromosomes in
sex determination and sexual dimorphism, cells reproduce through DNA and nucleic
acids, DNA transcribes into RNA that ultimately translates into protein,
prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes, genetic basis of cancer and how it relates to
the cell cycle.