Your Genes and Your Health

Stanford Continuing Studies

Second Idea for a Homework for those wishing Credit/No Credit

Describe a Gene that Causes an Inherited Disease

Doug Brutlag

Describe a gene and how it causes a disease

1. Choose an inherited disease

2. Use OMIM database to find the gene causing the disease.

3. Go to Entrez Gene to see the description of the gene

4. Go to SNP Gene View to find variations that cause the disease

5. Describe how variations in the gene cause a disease.

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