Animal Models of Human Disease

1 units · Medicine

Transgeneic and knockout mouse technology and examples of models for genetic disease with each pattern of inheritance. Examples are collagen diseases (osteogenesis imperfecta), Huntington diseases, muscular dystrophy, and Fredereich ataxia. Prereq: MolGen 5701 (701) or Biochem 5701 (702). Not open to students with credit for MolBioch 781.