HST.161 | Fall 2007 | Graduate

Molecular Biology and Genetics in Modern Medicine

Lecture Notes

The following table presents lecture notes taken by a student during class. The TOPICS column also includes PDF slides for a few of the lectures.

LEC # TOPICS LECTURERS STUDENT NOTES
1 Mendelian genetics, part 1 (PDF) D. Housman (PDF)
2 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy C. Seidman (PDF)
3

Discussion section example (PDF)

Muscular dystrophies

Handout (PDF) (Courtesy of Salil Garg. Used with permission.)

A. Giersch and TA’s

R. Brown

(PDF)
4

Mendelian genetics, part 2

Cystic fibrosis

D. Housman

R. Parad

(PDF)
5

Discussion sections

Thalassaemias

Students

D. Nathans

(PDF)
6

Mechanisms of mutation (PDF)

Hemophilia

D. Housman

E. Neufeld

(PDF)
7

Discussion sections

Mithochondrial disorders

Students

P. Greenstein

(PDF)
8

Chromosomes, part 1

Prenatal diagnostics

A. Giersch

L. Holmes

 
9 Discussion sections

Students

A. Giersch

(PDF)
10

William’s syndrome

Chromosomes, part 2 (PDF)

B. Pober

A. Giersch

(PDF)
11

Discussion sections

Newborn screening

Students

H. Levy

(PDF)
12

Deafness

Genetic deafness

A. Giersch

M. Kenna

(PDF)
  Midterm exam    
13

Trinucleotide repeats

Huntington’s disease

D. Housman

J. Cha

(PDF)
14

Discussion sections

Myotonic dystrophy

Students

P. Greenstein

(PDF)
15 Epigenetics/imprinting/X-inactivation L. Jackson-Grusby  
16

Discussion sections

Rett syndrome

Students

O. Khwajai

(PDF)
17 Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy (FSHD) D. Housman (PDF)
18

Discussion sections

Cancer

Students

D. Housman

(PDF)
19 Colon cancer D. Chung (PDF)
20

Discussion sections

Leukemia

Students

G. Daley

(PDF)
21

Complex traits

Hereditary Breast Ovarian Cancer

D. Housman

J. Garber

(PDF)
22

Genomic and epigenomic studies of human cancers

Gene therapy

D. Housman (PDF)
23 RNAi   (PDF)
24

Discussion sections

Review

Students (PDF)
  Final exam    
  Paper presentations Students  
  Paper presentations (cont.) Students