Advanced Medical Genetics: Cytogenetics

1 Unit

This course provides an in-depth forum for discussion of fundamental principles regarding clinical cytogenetics and its relevance to medical genetics, genomics and genetic counseling. Following a historical overview, topics include a discussion of numerical and structural chromosomal aberrations, sex chromosome abnormalities, issues regarding population cytogenetics, clinical relevance of such findings as marker chromosomes, mosaicism, and contiguous gene deletions.