- Docente: Daniela Turchetti
- Credits: 2
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The course has the aim of illustrating both consolidated and novel
knowledge in the field of Medical Genetics, also highlighting the
transversal implications to all the medical areas. The course will
enable the students:
- to draw pedigrees and to understand the inheritance pattern of genetic diseases
- to calculate the risk of recurrence of mendelian diseases
- to know atypical inheritance patterns
- to understand the principles underlying the genesis of multifactorial diseases
- to know how genetic testing is performed
- to be aware of the genetic predisposition to cancer
- to understand principles of clinical genetics and genetic
counselling
Course contents
Readings/Bibliography
E.S. Tobias, M. Connor, M. Ferguson-Smith: Fondamenti di Genetica Medica. Ed. Pearson, 2014
Teaching methods
Assessment methods
Teaching tools
Powerpoint slides available to the students
Online teaching modules in English: https://www.primarycaregenetics.org/?page_id=109&lang=en
Online teaching modules in Italian: https://www.primarycaregenetics.org/?page_id=900&lang=it
Office hours
See the website of Daniela Turchetti
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.