Geneticist course

MODULE I: What a geneticist does: difference between first level genetic counseling, second level genetic counseling and third level genetic counseling MODULE II: Phases of genetic counseling: phase of family history, in addition to a careful reconstruction of the family tree of the patient, clinical examination of the patient, request for instrumental investigations and laboratory tests, diagnosis of the pathology and risk assessment MODULE III: Genetic diagnosis: investigations to establish the risk for the patient or family members of developing the disease MODULE IV: Types of tests genetic: diagnostics, identification of healthy, presymptomatic, predictive and medico-legal carriers. V MODULE: What is meant by medical genetics: the study of DNA, of the genetic information contained within our cells, is important.Diagnostic approaches to medical genetics: chromoson morphology and gene sequencing