- Docente: Kerry Jane Rhoden
- Credits: 2
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course the student will have acquired some
aspects of professional training.
Course contents
The aim of the laboratory is to provide an understanding of:
- the fundamental principles of medical genetics
- the genetic basis of hereditary diseases with focus on those
related to nutrition
- interaction of genetic and nutritional factors in human health
and disease
Programme:
- Hereditary diseases: classes of genetic diseases, elements of genetic counselling, pedigrees, mendelian inheritance, recurrence risk, Hardy-Weinberg principle.
- Molecular diagnostics
- Mendelian diseases: example of diseases with autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, or X-linked inheritance.
- Exceptions and variations of mendelian inheritance: incomplete penetrance, variable expressivity, genetic heterogeneity, anticipation, germinal mosaicism, mitochondrial inheritance.
- Multifactorial diseases: genetic polimorphisms genetic and disease susceptibility, gene-environment interactions, association studies.
- Hereditary cancer.
- Chromosomal abnormalities and cytogenetics: aneuploidy, structural rearrangements, chromosome banding, FISH.
- Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics.
Teaching methods
Power Point lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
Power Point presentations of lectures will be provided to
students.
Office hours
See the website of Kerry Jane Rhoden