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Clinical Genetics - EAP0105550
Title: Clinical Genetics
Guaranteed by: Ústav lékařské genetiky (14-550)
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
Points: 1
E-Credits: 1
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/10, C [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type:  
Note: deregister from the credit exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Martin Pešta, Ph.D.
MUDr. Ivan Šubrt, Ph.D.
Mgr. Markéta Hejnalová
Teacher(s): MUDr. Monika Černá, Ph.D.
Mgr. Markéta Hejnalová
MUDr. Ivan Šubrt, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : EA0110039
Interchangeability : EA0110039
Is interchangeable with: EA0110039
Annotation -
Classification of genetic disorders. Genealogic studies. Monogenic and multifactorial types of inheritance. Congenital birth defects; aetiology, genetic risk. Cytogenetic techniques. Congenital and acquired chromosomal aberrations. Techniques of molecular diagnosis; utilisation in diagnosis of genetic disorders. Cancer genetics. Genetic counselling. Genetic screening in pregnant women; prenatal diagnosis. Ethical issues in medical genetics.

Last update: Křikavová Lenka, Ing. (08.06.2020)
Course completion requirements -

Participation in lectures and seminars.

Last update: Šubrt Ivan, MUDr., Ph.D. (14.10.2024)
Literature -

Recommended:

Pritchard D. J., Korf B. R. Medical Genetics at a Glance. Wiley-Blackwell 2013

Last update: Šubrt Ivan, MUDr., Ph.D. (14.10.2024)
Requirements to the exam -

Lectures
Seminars
Visit to the clinical genetics laboratory
Case based discussions

Last update: Šubrt Ivan, MUDr., Ph.D. (14.10.2024)
Syllabus -

Basic concepts of medical genetics
Molecular basis of pathological genetic conditions
Laboratory methods of clinical cytogenetics
Laboratory methods of molecular diagnostics
Basic types of monogenic inheritance (AD, AR, GR, GD, mitochondrial inheritance)
Hereditary diseases with Mendelian inheritance
Chromosome aberrations and microdeletion syndromes
Multifactorial hereditary diseases
Congenital defects and diseases, teratogenic effects in pregnancy
Pharmacogenetics
Hereditary tumor syndromes
Basics of syndromology
Prenatal diagnosis of VVV and genetically determined diseases
Genetic testing and bioinformatics in medical genetics
Principles of genetic counselling
Genetic prevention
Ethical issues in medical genetics

Last update: Šubrt Ivan, MUDr., Ph.D. (14.10.2024)
Learning outcomes -

Students will gain insight into current laboratory methods in clinical genetics, basic understanding of the genetic counselling process and structure of genetic reports a will be able to identify cases in need of referral to the clinical genetics unit.

Last update: Šubrt Ivan, MUDr., Ph.D. (14.10.2024)
 
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