DNA, Genetics, & Genomics: Understanding Their Importance in Health & Cancer Online distance learning
Enhance your understanding of the role genetics plays in shaping our health, and how this insight can help us treat disease. Genetic disorders, including cancer, affect all of us in one way or another, whether directly or indirectly. That’s why it’s important to understand how they develop, how they are diagnosed, and the treatments available. This ExpertTrack from the University of Glasgow will introduce you to the fundamentals of genomic and cancer science, as well as the connection between genetics and health.
- Length: 12 Weeks; 4 hours per week
- Start date: Anytime
- Expert Track
Why this course
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...
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Discuss the molecular basis of selected inherited conditions that illustrate the main patterns of inheritance
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Understand how to draw and analyse a pedigree and calculate genetic risk
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Describe how laboratories can use the latest technologies to identify genetic variants that have led to the patient's condition
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Explore how an understanding of the genetic basis of disease can facilitate improved management and therapies of genetic conditions
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Explore ways in which clinicians and genetic counsellors help patients to understand the implications of genetics for themselves and other family members and explore the options available to them
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Discuss the principal ways in which genomics can be used: to improve our understanding and diagnosis of medical conditions
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Describe the composition, structure and 3D organisation of the human genome; how that relates to its function; and the various ways in which genetic variants can disturb this and cause disease
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Understand the technologies & terminology commonly used in genomic analysis worldwide
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Explore how enormous genomic datasets can be analysed and learn how to use sophisticated online genome browsers and analysis tools to extract medically important findings
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Describe how genomic technologies can be applied in guiding therapy for human conditions, including precision medicine
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Demonstrate an understanding of basic cell biology as it relates to the development of cancer
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Discuss factors contributing to the development of cancer including environmental and genetic aspects
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Identify current approaches used to identify and treat cancer
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Reflect on strategies which may be used in future cancer therapies and the implications for society
How to register
Registration is free. The course is hosted on an external learning platform, Futurelearn.
Register nowRegistration for this course is free, with free time-limited access to content: charges may apply for additional features and extended study.
