Human/Medical Genetics. Academic Program Description

A program that focuses on the scientific study of human genetics from the standpoint of medical applications such as clinical diagnosis, genetic engineering and therapy, transplantation, and the study of genetic diseases and disabilities and their defense. Includes instruction in human molecular genetics; genetic factors causing disease; changes in gene expression during development, differentiation, and pathogenesis; recombinant DNA; gene therapy; clinical genetics; genetic epidemiology; immunogenetics; cytogenetics; and genetics of specific disorders and diseases.(Moved from 51.1306)

Related Occupations

• Medical Scientists

Colleges Offering this Curriculum

• Arcadia University
• Drexel University
• Hofstra University
• Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans
• Stanford University
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• The University of Texas Medical Branch
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• University of California-Los Angeles
• University of Chicago
• University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
• University of Hawaii at Manoa
• University of Iowa
• University of Maryland-Baltimore
• University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• University of South Carolina-Columbia
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
• University of Utah
• University of Washington - Seattle
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Vanderbilt University
• Virginia Commonwealth University