About This Major
A program that prepares individuals to respond to the complex social, legal, ethical, and public health policy implications generated by genetic research. Includes instruction in biochemical genetics of complex diseases, bioethics, chromosomes and human disease, genetic counseling, genetic epidemiology, gene mapping, human population genetics, and the molecular basis of human inherited disease.
At a Glance
- CIP Code
- 51.2214
- CIP Family
- 51
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