EPI 5342 Genetic Epidemiology
1.5 units
Epidemiology and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
Scope of genetic epidemiology, including an overview of types of human genetic variation, approaches to gene discovery vs. gene characterization. Specific issues include: assessment of effect of family history on disease risk; measurement of genetic variation, genotyping errors and factors affecting these; study designs specially adapted to genetic epidemiology family based designs (e.g. case-parent trio, case-sib designs), case-only designs; candidate gene and genome-wide association approaches to genetic association; gene-environment and gene-gene interaction; integration of evidence; evaluation of potential value of genetic information in screening (e.g. newborn screening), family history tools and genetic testing.
Components:
Lecture
Requirements:
EPI 5342 is a corequisite to EPI 5340 .
Previously Offered Terms:
Summer