Before class:

Catch up!

Topics for class:

What we do with genomes

• Personalized genomic medicine
  • Pharmacogenomics - maximize drug effects
  • Disease risk
  • Passing on traits
• Linking traits to genes
  • Genome wide association studies
  • Correlation
  • Effect size
• Microbiomes
  • Links to disease and health
  • Role in the environment
• Evolution
  • How / what changes occurred?
• Individual identification and ancestry
  • Use of DNA in crimes
  • Check out a sample 23andMe report
• Genetic engineering
  • Plants - disease / herbicide resistance
  • People?

Ethics in genomics

• Genetic testing
  • knowledge
  • cost
  • regulation
  • understanding and impact
• Genetic discrimination
  • Insurance
  • Workplace
• Personal medicine
  • Discrimination or beneficial?
• Intellectual property
• Genetic identification
  • probability and impact of error
• Genetic engineering
  • What are the impacts?
  • What should be allowed?
  • “Safety” requirements

Notes

Notes on what we do with genomes
Notes on ethical issues with genomics