New! 12-Minute Medical Genetics Vignettes @ IPAK-EDU
Michelle MuCully joins IPAK-EDU Faculty. We'll be augmenting your educational experience, whether you're a physician or a patient - or just want to understand!
Just announced: Dr. Michelle McCulley (NZ) agrees with science and with me that many of the illnesses and medical conditions attributed to genetics are not due to genetics alone. But some are. She and I are offering short vignettes on Human Genetics via-IPAK-EDU suitable for students in genetics and physicians seeking fundamentals and examples of modes of inheritance and examples of concepts in Human Genetics.
She'll also be developing an entire course on Epigenetics and Human Health for Spring 2024.
Vignettes in Human Medical Genetics
As a stand-alone or an add-on to Genetics 1 and 2, people who sign up will receive weekly access to short videos describing myriad modes of inheritance and concepts in genetics as is relevant to medical genetics.
Presenter: Michelle McCully & James Lyons-Weiler
Topics will include: The fundamentals of and examples of modes of inheritance and concepts in genetics: mutation, mendelian inheritance, loss-of-function, gain-of-function, autosomal dominant, sex-linked inheritance, two-hit hypothesis, polygenic, complex traits, chromosomal mutations, secondary non-disjunction, translocations, penetrance, linkage, pleiotropy, epistasis, epigenetics, anticipation, imprinting, variability expressivity, mosaicism, and chimerism as they related to medical genetics and human health.
About your presenters:
Michelle McCully (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Human/Medical Genetics from University College London, U. of London.) has working experience in clinical genetics, including teaching clinical genetics and epigenetics. Her book, Epigenetics and Health: A Practical Guide https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/epigenetics-and-h... ties the entire picture of genetics, epigenetics and environmental exposures togethers at a level in which physicians and patients can improve their understanding of risk factors influencing their patients', and their own, health.
James Lyons-Weiler founded IPAK and IPAK-EDU and teaches many of the fundamental and advanced courses. He is an actively publishing research scientist who conducts research in the public interest without profit motive.
I'm especially interested in the fact that many kids have a double diagnosis of autism and either Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Hypermobile Spectrum Disorder. I believe both autism and hEDS/HSD are epigenetic disorders. The combination of these two disabilities is "worse than the sum of its parts."
I also have a niece with Kabuki Syndrome-ever so rare and wonder if the course will give me more understanding of it.