Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics–

INDE 238/GENE 238
Current Concepts and Dilemmas in Genetic Testing

Spring Quarter 2008

Wednesdays 4-6 pm, Beckman Center, room B200
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Schedule (.doc)

April 2

    1. Pharmacogenetics/Pharmacogenomics (Altman)
    2. Database development issues (Altman)

April 9

    1. The molecular diagnosis of hematolymphoid malignancies (Zehnder)
    2. Development of microarray technologies (Pollack)

April 16

    1. Benchtop discoveries in DNA repair and applications to cancer genetics (Ford, Chun)
    2. Clinical use of genetic tests for cancer risk in clinical practice (Ford, Chun)

April 23

  1. Heritage testing and ethnicity-based testing (Greely)
  2. Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (Mountain)

April 30

    1. Comparison of business strategies for BRCA1 testing:  Myriad vs. Oncormed (Eaton)
    2. Discussion of subsequent marketing and intellectual property development (Eaton)

May 7

    1. Prenatal screening and diagnosis (Hudgins)
    2. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (Hudgins)

May 14

    1. Cytogenetics (Cherry)
    2. Comparative Genome Hybridization (Cherry)

May 21

    1. Stem cell genetics (Scott)
    2. Stem cell genetics (Scott)

May 28

    1. Genetic testing controversies (Enns)
    2. New approaches to newborn screening (Cowan/Enns)

June 4
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